Hispanic Heritage - September

 

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1. My family divided: one girl's journey of home, loss, and hope

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Guerrero, Diane, 1986-
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Cary Regional - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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Duraleigh Road - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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Green Road Community - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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"The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin ... presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the ... struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--

2. My (underground) American dream: my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a Wall Street executive

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Arce, Julissa
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
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Green Road Community - Biography
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Middlecreek Community - Biography
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"When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would secure her a better life. When her visa expired at the age of 15, she became an undocumented immigrant. Thus began her underground existence, a decades long game of cat and mouse, tremendous family sacrifice, and fear of exposure. After the Texas Dream Act made a college degree possible,...

3. Undocumented: a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League

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Padilla Peralta, Dan-el
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East Regional - Biography
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Richard B Harrison - Biography
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4. The undocumented Americans

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Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
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East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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"Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the ... stories of her fellow undocumented Americans, ... [bringing] to light remarkable [tales] of hope and resilience [through which] we come to understand what it truly means to be American"--