"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells-in their own words-the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed...

«En esta conmovedora autobiografía que no podrás soltar, un joven poeta relata la inolvidable historia de su desgarradora migración hacia Estados Unidos desde El Salvador a los nueve años, considerada 'el viaje mítico de nuestra era'.» —Sandra Cisneros

Viaje. Mis padres empezaron a usar esa palabra hace más o menos un año: "un día vas a hacer un viaje para estar con nosotros. Como una aventura".

La aventura

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have bad dreams about not having my parents with me. I'm the only one in first grade who doesn't have both parents with him. I tell my friends that one day, I'm taking a trip like a real-real game of hide-and-seek. #2 I miss my friends and family back in La USA. I love my grandparents, but I miss my mom and dad. I want to be with them on Mother's and Father's Day,...

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells--in their own words--the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed...

Concerns Walden Pond State Reservation and Roland Wells Robbins.

Finalmente, era arrivato il momento di concludere un'intensa giornata di lavoro, piena di dispiaceri. Una vera e propria maratona per poter fare la mia parte in quel grande ingranaggio che era l'azienda in cui lavoravo, nella quale non si poteva fallire senza danneggiare tutto il resto.
Stavo raccogliendo qualche foglio di carta nel mio ufficio, quando sentii quel suono che faceva il computer quando ricevevo una nuova e-mail. Di solito a

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En el Olimpo de los Dioses, nació un niño sin poderes. Su nombre era Miguel. En la escuela, los demás niños no sabían cómo jugar con él, y entonces lo dejaban solito. Pero un día, llegó una nueva maestra que les explicó que si todos ayudaban a Miguel, él podría llegar a hacer las mismas cosas extraordinarias que ellos, y esto ¡lo cambió todo!