Enrique's journey

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Nazario, Sonia

Nazario, Sonia

Eva H. Perry Regional
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional

Adult Non-Fiction

Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction

Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life but never made enough money to return home for her children. Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he made the dangerous trek up the length of Mexico, clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. He and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. To evade bandits and authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call the Train of Death. It is an epic journey, one thousands of children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.--From publisher description. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number.

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

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Wake County Public Libraries

Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional

9780812971781

2014

Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Reader's circle

Reader's circle|

Hondurans -- United States -- Biography
Hondurans -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Honduras -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies
Illegal alien children -- United States -- Biography
Illegal aliens -- United States -- Biography
Illegal aliens -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Immigrant children -- United States -- Biography
Immigrant children -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies

Enrique's journey

Enrique's journey / Sonia Nazario

Enrique's journey

Emigration and immigration
Hondurans
Illegal alien children
Illegal aliens
Immigrant children
Social conditions