The other side : stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border / Juan Pablo Villalobos ; translated by Rosalind Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Harvey, Rosalind, 1982- translator.

Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in Children's and Young Adult Literature Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage refugees--Central America--Juvenile literature.

Teenage refugees.

Teenage immigrants--Central America--Juvenile literature.

Teenage immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Central America--Emigration and immigration--Juvenile literature.

Central America.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Juvenile literature.

United States.

Genre:

Young adult literature.

Juvenile works.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2019]

Summary:

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 fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters--offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.-Central American refugee crisis. In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.

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. Those refugees who do succeed face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Where Are Your Kids?

Now I'm Going to Sleep for a Bit

The Other Side Means the Other Side

There Are Snakes Out There

It Was Like Cotton, but When I Touched It, It Was Just Ice

I'd Rather Die Trying to Get Out

He and I Got Along Really Well

How We Were Going to Get There

La Cabuya

Before and After

To This Day.

Other Format:

Online version: Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 1973- author. The other side

ISBN:

9780374305734

0374305730

OCLC:

1084620838

Publisher Number:

99987197210