Brave Teenage Refugees Seek a Home of the Free
The three teenagers at its center have grown up in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, a smallish city overrun by drug dealers, violence and poverty.
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real
We first meet the 16-year-old Colombian immigrant Valentina González Ramirez in 2032 as she watches a livestream of a teenage girl in a burnt-out field between Tijuana and San Diego...
An Immigrant Story
Mariana and her two children, Gabriel, 10, and Andrea, 6, have been abandoned by Mariana’s husband after leaving their native Colombia to join him in Jackson Heights, Queens. Now Mariana unemployed, not knowing English...