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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of lonelinss and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
7) Mary Coin
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Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Imagines the lives of the subject of the photograph, photographer, and a college professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image of the iconic "Migrant Mother."
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Español
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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Harper Teen, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
14) Dubiosity
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[Cape Thomas] volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Savannah Harris vowed to leave behind her old life as an investigative reporter. But when two migrant workers go missing from her sleepy coastal town on the Chesapeake Bay, her curiosity spikes. As ever more eerie incidents occur, Savannah is drawn out of her seclusion and the stakes are raised--for both Savannah and the surrounding community"--
15) Migrant
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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A Mexican boy tells of his journey to the U.S. with his family. They must face many dangers to cross the border, only to experience the uncertainty felt by all illegal immigrants.
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