Below is a list of 3 the books by this author.
Soledad lives with her father, Abuela, and brothers in Tijuana, where they struggle to keep her mother’s restaurant open after her death. The only... [Read More]
Soledad lives with her father, Abuela, and brothers in Tijuana, where they struggle to keep her mother’s restaurant open after her death. The only U.S. citizen among them, Sol journeys across the border every weekday to attend high school in San Diego. At 16, she moves in with her best friend's family, and takes on a part-time job in a U.S. warehouse to keep her family afloat. As she bears the weight of so much responsibility, how can Sol continue to pursue her goal of being the first in her family to attend college?
Theme: Diversity
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger... [Read More]
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American. Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story--both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.
Theme: BIPOC , LGBTQ2S+
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger... [Read More]
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American.
Theme: Immigration, Family Relationships, Social Justice