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Twelve-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then, Dad disappears, and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. What’s happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever?

Perfect for fans of We Are Not From Here—this searing novel introduces an unaccompanied minor from Honduras who flees murdering coyotes, only to become ensnared by human traffickers. Freedom is not free. After his father is executed by smugglers, Teódulo escapes and continues the harrowing journey toward the United States alone. He’s hunted. A debt is owed. At the border, violent cartel members capture him and force him into brutal labor because everybody pays to cross, one way or another. He doesn’t speak English. He doesn’t know where he is, and his jailers beat, threaten, and ...

The year is 2033, and in this near-future America where undocumented people are forced into labor camps, life is bleak. Especially so for seventeen-year-old Rania, a Lebanese teenager from Chicago. When she and her mother were rounded up by the Deportation Force, they were given the brutal job of digging in the labor camp’s mine searching for the destructive and toxic, but potentially world-changing chemical, aqualinium.

Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an Iranian asylum seeker who is only allowed out of detention to attend school. On weekdays, during school hours, she can be a ‘regular Australian girl’. Jono needs the distraction of an infatuation. In the past year, his mum has walked out, he’s been dumped, and his sister has moved away. Lost and depressed, Jono feels as if he’s been left behind with his Vietnamese single father, Kenny.

Con pericia literaria y un ritmo envolvente, Juvenal Acosta retrata en La puerta del Círculo Polar Ártico el espíritu del momento que vivimos, a partir de la historia de una joven que lucha por creer que como especie estamos a tiempo de hacer bien las cosas. Escapando de un país violento que no le ofrece futuro alguno, Violeta emigra de la Ciudad de México a San Francisco para comenzar de nuevo y cumplir su sueño de convertirse en escritora. En California conoce a Anders, un joven sueco que la motiva tanto intelectual como afectivamente, pero con un aura de tristeza que la intriga.

دوستان وهمکلاسیهایشان مدارک تحصیلی شغل و مهارتشان آرزوهای دوران بچگی گاهی اعتمادبه نفسشان و حتی برای عده ای زبان مادری در چمدان کوچک مهاجرتشان جا نشد ...دریا از ابر بالای شهر ارزوها پرسید میتونم همه ی آدمها و چیزهایی که دوستشون دارم رو با خودم ببرمابر خندید و گفت از بین همه ی چیز هایی که دوست داری فقط به اندازه ی یک چمدون میتونی بیاری . آدمها رو نمیتونی.

Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where its sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesnt pay much attention to them...until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself, fears being caught by la migra, and is mysteriously unable to talk.

Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to school in the United States. Though the commute is exhausting, this is the best way to achieve her dream: becoming the first person in her family to go to college. When her family’s restaurant starts struggling, Sol must find a part-time job in San Diego to help her dad put food on the table and pay the bills. But her complicated school and work schedules on the US side of the border mean moving in with her best friend and leaving her family behind.

Immediately after high school graduation, eighteen-year-old Maya is kicked out of her wealthy dad's NYC home; he prides himself on forcing his kids to "make their own way in the world." Maya's mom lives in Guatemala, so Maya crashes with friends while working and trying to land freelance writing gigs. Maya struggles to find her footing until she gets access to a "writing room," a shared workspace where she can focus―and get to know the intriguing neighbor, Jake, who's often there.

Poco podía imaginar Meryem el giro que iba a dar su vida cuando de niña caminaba hasta el pozo del oasis en el que vivía, en pleno Sahara. Tuvo una infancia feliz hasta que dejaron de transitar las caravanas y su padre, Yunan el tuareg, se vio obligado a emigrar a España en busca de trabajo. Cuando su padre deja de enviar noticias, Meryem siente que algo ha sucedido y decide partir en su busca.

Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the United States. Instead, they’re met with hostility and racism. Empowered by the Chinese Exclusion Act, the government detains the immigrants on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay while evaluating their claims.

Zu fünft brechen sie auf: Miguel, Fernando, Emilio, Jaz und Ángel. Die Jugendlichen haben sich erst vor kurzem kennengelernt, aber sie haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: Sie wollen es über die Grenze in die USA schaffen. Vor ihnen liegen mehr als zweieinhalbtausend Kilometer durch ganz Mexiko, die sie als blinde Passagiere auf Güterzügen zurücklegen müssen. Nicht nur Hunger und Durst, Hitze und Kälte sind ihre Gegner - unterwegs lauern auch noch zahlreiche andere Gefahren: Unfälle, Banditen, korrupte Polizisten, Drogenhändler und Menschenschmuggler. Doch wenn sie zusammenhalten, haben sie eine Chance!

Daria Esfandyar is Iranian-American and proud of her heritage, unlike some of the “Nose Jobs” in the clique led by her former best friend, Heidi Javadi. Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But in the course of researching a school project, Daria learns something shocking about her past, which launches her on a journey of self-discovery. It seems everyone is keeping secrets. And it’s getting harder to know who she even is any longer.

Naomi, ein 12-jähriges jüdisches Mädchen, musste während des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit seiner Mutter aus Frankreich nach New York fliehen; den Vater haben die Nazis vor ihren Augen getötet. Dieses Erlebnis hat Naomi zutiefst verstört. Das ehemals fröhliche und kluge Mädchen spricht nicht mehr, zerreißt Papier in kleine Schnipsel und versteckt sich hinter seiner Puppe. Nun wird Alan, ein sportbegeisterter Junge, der im selben Mietshaus lebt, von seinen Eltern gebeten, sich ein wenig um sie zu kümmern. Alan übernimmt anfangs nur widerwillig diese Aufgabe.

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.

Fifteen-year-old Nina Perez is faced with a future she never expected. She must leave her Garden of Eden, her lush island home in Samana, Dominican Republic, when she's sent by her mother to live with her brother, Darrio, in New York, to seek out a better life. As Nina searches for some glimpse of familiarity amid the urban and jarring world of Washington Heights, she learns to uncover her own strength and independence. She finds a way to grow, just like the orchids that blossom on her fire escape.

LA FURIA DEL MAR LOS UNIÓ. En mitad de la mayor tempestad que se recuerda en años, el equipo de rescate del Centro de Coordinación de Salvamento de Almería se interna en la noche cerrada hacia el punto de encuentro, donde les espera una escena devastadora. Una patera, sobrecargada de inmigrantes desesperados, se hunde lentamente entre las olas embravecidas, desapareciendo bajo la superficie oscura y turbulenta. Entre los supervivientes que luchan contra las aguas heladas, Rafa se lanza al rescate de una figura que cree ser de un chico. Sin embargo, cuando logra alcanzarlo, queda ...

Set in a world where bees are at risk of extinction, this startling YA dystopia is perfect for fans of Meg Rosoff's How I live Now and Sarah Crossan, described by the author as a love letter to her daughter. Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It's a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It's a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth.

När Samir och hans familj får veta att de inte får stanna i Sverige och kommer att tvingas återvända till Afghanistan fattar han ett drastiskt beslut. De kan inte skicka tillbaka honom om de inte vet var han finns ... Mitt i natten rymmer han och gömmer sig ute i skogen, men livet på flykt är tufft och han kommer att behöva vänner om han ska klara sig.

Natalie's world has turned upside down. She's lost her mum, and her brother is descending further and further into anger and violence with a far-right gang who march the streets of Dover. Sammy has fled his home and family in Eritrea for the chance of a new life in Europe. Every step he takes is a step into the unknown - into a strange country and a hidden future. A twist of fate brings these two teens from opposite sides of the channel together, but will their journey end in hope or despair?