The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border

✍ Scribed by Juan Pablo Villalobos

• Book ID: 100267934
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 84 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0374305730

✦ Synopsis

Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.

You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer.

Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here.

In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival--including two...