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Someone Like Me
by Julissa Arce
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-316-48174-8
Keywords: Diversity, Immigrants, Immigration, Family Life, Fathers and Daughters, Mexican Americans, Mothers and Daughters
Brought to the U.S. as an 11-year-old, Dreamer Julissa surmounts a financially insecure cildhood to exceed academically, aid her family, and gain her citizenship. Photographs.