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A Junior Library Guild Selection, 2014A 2014 National Indie Excellence Award winner young adult fictionA School Library Journal Top 10 Latino Books of 2014With graduation and an uncertain future looming, M.T. must figure out how to grow up in the only country shes ever called home... a country in which shes illegal.M.T. was born in Argentina and brought to America as a baby without any official papers. And as questions of college, work, and the future arise, M.T. will have to decide what exactly she wants for herself, knowing someone she loves will unavoidably pay the price for it. On the way, M.T. must navigate first love, letting go of her childhood friends as they begin a life she cant share, a difficult relationship with a father who grew up a world away and a mother struggling to find her way in America.
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When Maria is not writing or speaking, you can find her reading post-apocalyptic fiction and singing to her plants or organizing her beautiful wooden writing boxes. She wishes she zip-lined more. When she plays "Two Truths and a Lie," she'll tell you the story of how she was once almost eaten by lions. But she won't tell you if that's the truth or the lie.Visit her online at MariaEAndreu.comTwitter: @WriterSideofMInstagram: instagram.com/MariaEAndreuFacebook: facebook.com/MariaEAndreu
