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The Everything I Have Lost

by Sylvia ZĂ©leny

Ages: 12+

Published: 2020

Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press

ISBN: 978-1-94627-18-5

Keywords: Diversity, U.S. - Mexico border, Mexico, Drug Crimes, Dysfunctional families

Julia, living in Juarez, writes realistically in her diary about her young teen years growing up in an increasingly violent city.