Illegal
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Stork, Francisco X. Disappeared ;
2. |
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| Summary: | To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them. To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held indefinitely in a detention facility, awaiting an asylum hearing that may never come, finding it harder every day to hold on to her faith and hope. Emiliano had entered the country illegally, and everywhere he goes, it's clear that he doesn't belong. As the cartel closes in on them, Emiliano sets off on a tense and dangerous race to find justice. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Item Description: | Sequel to: Disappeared. Series information from Goodreads. |
| Physical Description: | 291 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 12+. Grades 7-9. |
| ISBN: | 9781338310559 1338310550 |
| Author Notes: | Francisco X. Stork (he/him) emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. I Am Not Alone is his tenth novel. Other novels include: Marcelo in the Real World , recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors , which received the Elizabeth Walden Award, The Memory of Light , recipient of the Tomás Rivera Award, Disappeared , which received the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book and Illegal , recipient of the In the Margins Award, the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Latino Book Award. On the Hook published in 2021, received four starred reviews and was the recipient of the International Latino Book Award. |
