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PURA BELPR HONOR BOOK ALA NOTABLE BOOK "Powerful and timely." - Booklist (starred review) "An important, must-have addition to the growing body of literature with immigrant themes." - School Library Journal (starred review) En esta absorbente y emocionante novela juvenil, Jaime de doce aos emprende el peligroso y traicionero viaje que le transforma su vida de su hogar en Guatemala a Estados Unidos para vivir con su hermano mayor. Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous and life-changing journey from his home in Guatemala to live with his older brother in the United States in this gripping and realistic middle grade novel.Jaime est sentado en su cama dibujando cuando oye un grito. Sabe inmediatamente que su primo hermano y mejor amigo, Miguel, est muerto.



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Alexandra Diaz

Alexandra Diaz is a Cuban-American spending her time between Bath, England, Santa Fe, NM, and the rest of the world. She has an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and has led various workshops since she was fourteen. As a result of being homeschooled for most of high school, she's fascinated by teenage school life and the drama that occurs in those quarters. One of the reasons she writes is to experience life in someone else's shoes. She is a "jenny of all trades" having worked as a nanny, teacher, film extra, tour guide, and dairy goat judge (seriously) . She currently teaches creative writing and circus arts, though not at the same time.For more information, got to www.alexandra-diaz.com



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