Nazario, Sonia. creator text biography nyu New York Random House c2006 2006 1st ed. monographic eng

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xxv, 291 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm. Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he made the dangerous trek up the length of Mexico, clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. He and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. To evade bandits and authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call the Train of Death. It is an epic journey, one thousands of children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.--From publisher description. Sonia Nazario. ncho--- n-us--- Hondurans United States Biography Immigrant children United States Biography Illegal immigration United States Hondurans United States Social conditions Case studies Immigrant children United States Social conditions Case studies Noncitizens United States Social conditions Case studies Honduras Emigration and immigration Case studies United States Emigration and immigration Case studies E184.H66 N397 2006(FIC) 305.23/089/687283073 1400062055 9781400062058 2005044347 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2005044347-s.html DLC 050622 20231208094005.0 14012133