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• My Two Border Towns

  Bowles, David (David O.)

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  This book is about a trip a little boy takes with his father to a town just on the other side of the border. "This town's a twin of the one where I live, with Spanish spoken everywhere just the same, but English mostly missing till it pops…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Town

  Mi Pueblo

  Solis, Nicholas

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  "I love my town on the river. I love my cousin's town too. Though a border separates them, they both feel like home."

• ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge

  Raúl the Third, 1976-

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  "At night, from high above, the two cities on either side of the bridge look like one big city."

• Yenebi's Drive to School

  Santamaria, Sendy

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  This picture book is about a little girl who wakes up every day at 4 to make the drive with her mother and sister across the border to go to school. In the author's note, Sendy Santamaria said: "Countless people get up every morning at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twin Cities

  Pimienta, Jose

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  From Google Books: "Being twins means having a best friend forever . . . But when one goes to middle school in Mexico and the other across the border in California, can that bond withstand the distance? Luis Fernando is staying local in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Through Fences

  Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

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  From School Library Journal Reviews: "At the United States/Mexico border, every family has a story: a young Mexican girl in a detention center, separated from her parents and little brother; a white teen living in poverty with his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Call Me Güero

  a Border Kid's Poems

  Bowles, David (David O.)

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  From Bibliocommons: "Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher."

• Playing at the Border

  a Story of Yo-Yo Ma

  Ho, Joanna

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  From Bibliocommons: "Presents a picture book biography of Yo-Yo Ma, one the world's most renowned and celebrated cellists who, staying true to himself, performed at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, proving that it is possible to build…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between Us and Abuela

  Perkins, Mitali

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  From Bibliocommons: "When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence."

• The Chupacabras of the Río Grande

  Gidwitz, Adam

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  From Bibliocommons: "Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--

• They Call Her Fregona

  a Border Kid's Poems

  Bowles, David (David O.)

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• Mis dos pueblos fronterizos

  Bowles, David (David O.)

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• El viaje de Yenebi a la escuela

  Santamaria, Sendy

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• Efrén dividido

  Efrén Divided

  Cisneros, Ernesto

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• Me dicen Güero

  poemas de un chavo de la frontera

  Bowles, David (David O.),

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• Le dicen Fregona

  poemas de un chavo de la frontera

  Bowles, David (David O.)

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