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El Salvador Emigration and immigration Juvenile literature Flores, Ernesto 1997- Juvenile literature Flores, Raul 1997- Juvenile literature Illegal aliens United States Biography Juvenile literature Refugees California Oakland Social conditions Juvenile literature Salvadoran Americans California Oakland Biography Juvenile literature Salvadorans California Oakland Biography Juvenile literature Twin brothers Biography Juvenile literature Unaccompanied immigrant children United States Juvenile literature United States Emigration and immigration Juvenile literatureLovato, Roberto
Summary: A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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Summary: Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019