The Distance Between Us - Young Readers Edition

"A memoir by Reyna Grande"--Front cover.

About the author

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.

Summary

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir, The Distance Between Us-"an important account of the many ways immigration impacts children" (Booklist, starred review).

When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.

But when things don't go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us sheds light on the immigrant experience beautifully capturing the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).

Product details

• Authors: Reyna Grande, Grande Reyna
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781481463706
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-6370-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 191 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; Mexico, People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / General, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Mexico