Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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The Distance Between Us
by Reyna Grande
Ages: 14+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
ISBN: 978-1-4814-6371-3
Keywords: Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Family, Undocumented immigrants
Despite a childhood of hardships, poverty, and unreliable, troubled parents, the author, an illegal immigrant to the U.S. from Mexico, thrives as a writer.