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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The United States is a much more powerful entity than La Llorona, the weeping woman who takes children away. It takes away parents, not children.
#2 When my mother left to sell Avon products, I would often go with her. But when she said she wouldn't be gone for long, I knew it would be different. I never imagined that not too long would turn out to be never, because...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed."--Provided by publisher.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the countrycomes an inspiring account of one womans quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the USMexico border in search of a...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the...