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The Other Side

by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-0-374-30573-4

Keywords: Central America, refugees, immigrants, Diversity, Teenagers

Ten teenagers recount their journeys from Central America to the United States, with the reasons they left and the dangers they encountered along the way. Author's note and glossary.