Javier Zamora
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
2) Solito
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Desde su pequeño pueblo en El Salvador hasta llega a la frontera con Estados Unidos, la aventura de Javier Zamora es un viaje de tres mil millas. Va a reunirse con sus padres, una travesía que en su imaginación infantil durará solo dos semanas, pero que en realidad le tomará dos meses. Viajará solo y, como cualquier niño de nueve anos, será incapaz de preveer el peligro que acecha: los arriesgados viajes en bote, el implacable desierto, las...
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells-in their own words-the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed...
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