A collection of 35 bold, important, and groundbreaking essays and poems by migrants, refugees and Dreamers, including award-winning writers, artists, and activists, that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this divisive issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously in the United States are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters,...

Una guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable. El ąo es 1846. Despǔs de la controvertida anex̤in de Texas, el eǰrcito de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con ̌Mxico por la disputada frontera del ̕Ro Grande. Ximena Salǒm es una talentosa curandera mexicana que suęa con construir una familia con el hombre que ama en la codiciada tierra que llama hogar. Pero cuando los Texas Rangers asaltan su rancho y matan a tiros a su...

From bestselling author Reyna Grande whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one womans quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the US Mexico border in search of...

Introduction by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously in...

"The young readers' edition of the bestselling adult book of the same name"-- In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate...

A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists