| Description |
32, 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Titles from separate title pages; works bound back to back and inverted. |
| Audience |
Ages 10-15. Arte Público Press / Piñata Books. |
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Grades 7-9. Arte Público Press / Piñata Books. |
| Summary |
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border. |
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"Ten-year-old Jimena Pérez loves life with her parents in El Salvador. They sell fruit at the market, just like her grandmother and great grandmother did. "Fruits / are a blessing / like you, Jimena," her mother tells her. But one day a group of boys threaten her friend Rosenda at school. "You know / what will happen / to your family / if you don't join us." Jimena's parents, afraid gangs will try to recruit her too, decide she must go to the United States with her mother. She is excited and fearful, and doesn't want to leave her father, friends and dog Sultán. "I felt sad / the way fruit looks / when it's past ripeness." By bus, train and on foot, mother and daughter make their way north, until one night, bright lights fill the sky and men in green uniforms rip Jimena from her mother. Imprisoned with children from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, Jimena and the others cry for their parents. One boy repeats over and over, "My father's name is Marcos / He is in Los Angeles." A box full of books brings her some solace, reminding her of the ones donated to kids at the market in El Salvador. "The letters kiss me / like my mama's words / like my papa's words / I am a little bird / Nothing can stop me / I can fly." In this poignant narrative poem for kids ages 10-15, award-winning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta movingly captures the fear that drives so many Central Americans to flee their countries and the anguish created by separating children from their parents at the US border. Putting a human face on the millions of people who flee their homelands each year, this book will help young people understand the difficulties of migration and leaving behind all that is dear." -- Publisher's description |
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Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
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Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
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El Salvador -- Juvenile fiction.
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Upside-down books -- Specimens.
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Spanish language -- Readers.
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Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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El Salvador -- Fiction. |
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Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.
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| Genre |
Bilingual books.
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Upside-down books.
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| Added Author |
Vanden Broeck, Fabricio, 1954- illustrator.
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Bell, Elizabeth (Translator), translator.
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| Added Title |
Jimena Pérez can fly |
| ISBN |
9781558858893 (paperback) : $10.95 |
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155885889X (paperback) |
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