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2) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 251 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Vanessa lo tiene todo: una familia increíble, grandes amigos y las comodidades propias de una niña consentida. Sin embargo, a sus apenas 26 años se siente agobiada, aburrida y más encerrada que un animal salvaje en la vitrina de un zoológico, por lo que decide dejar México e irse a vivir a Miami en busca de aventuras.
Vanessa has it all: an amazing family, great friends, and the comforts of a spoiled child. However, at just 26 years old, she...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The remarkable heroine of The Hummingbird's Daughter returns in this epic novel of love and loss in a restless America. Teresita's passage will take her across the nation as she comes to terms with her place in a new world. She must finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America. Undocumented, Aida fought to make her way. She learned English, watched Friends, and, after having a baby at sixteen, dreamed of teaching dance and moving with...
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A lyrical celebration of multiculturalism as a parent shares with a child the value of their heritage and why it should be a source of pride, even when others disagree.
Author
Formats
Description
The story of illegal aliens in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other illegal Mexicans living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and natives.
12) Imperial
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxx, 1306 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
For generations of migrant workers, Imperial County--the California desert region where the U.S. borders Mexico--has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. Award-winning writer Vollmann takes readers deep into the heart of this haunted region.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eligio, un carism?tico y mediocre actor de 28 a?os, un buen d?a, llega a su casa y descubre que su esposa Susana se ha ido sin dar ninguna explicaci?n. Eligio la busca por todas partes y al hablar con la gente va d?ndose cuenta de que entre ellos las cosas no andaban tan bien como ?l pensaba. Despu?s de un par de meses, descubre que Susana se ha ido a una universidad en una peque?a ciudad del centro de los Estados Unidos; malvende su autom?vil y se...
14) Return to sender
Author
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
15) Una mejor vida
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Carlos Galindo siempre so?aba con una vida mejor para su esposa y su hijo reci?n nacido cuando cruz? la frontera hacia los EE.UU. Pero cuando su esposa lo dej?, el ?nico meta de Carlos se convirti? en asegurarse de que su hijo Luis le dio las oportunidades que ?l nunca tuvo. Esta es una historia que sigue a padre e hijo mientras se embarcan en un viaje f?sico y espiritual donde descubren que la familia es la parte m?s importante del sue?o americano.
Carlos...
Author
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
18) Farmingville
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the people of Farmingville, New York, and at how they are dealing with the influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers.
19) Los bastardos
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de Jes?s y Fausto, dos jornaleros indocumentados de M?xico en Los Angeles. Cada d?a un trabajo distinto, cada d?a la misma presi?n para conseguir dinero. Siguen con su rutina diaria, parados en la esquina de un almac?n de mejoras del hogar esperando a que caiga alg?n trabajo. Hoy, el trabajo est? bien pagado, comparado a su sueldo habitual. Hoy, Jes?s lleva una escopeta dentro de su mochila.
20) Lucky boy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But...
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