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Twin Cities

Jose Pimienta

Illustrator: Jose Pimienta

Ages: 9+

Published: 2022

Publisher: RH Graphic/Random House Children's Books/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-593-18063-1

Keywords: twins, Mexican/American Border

Twin Mexican 12-year-olds going to middle school on opposite sides of the Mexico-U.S. border grow apart. Can they find one another again? Colorful graphics of Mexicali and Calexico. Back matter.