Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.

Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas--

Traces the author's education at Columbia University, where he struggled with cultural differences and a changing sense of identity.

Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Mexican American singer Selena in English and Spanish, along with a brief biography in English.

Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.

"En 1994, Yuyi Morales dejó su hogar en Xalapa, México, para emigrar a Estados Unidos con su hijo pequeño. Aunque dejó atrás casi todas sus pertenencias, no llegó con las manos vacías. Trajo consigo su fortaleza, su trabajo, su pasión, sus esperanzas y sueños... y sus historias. El nuevo y magnífico libro de Yuyi Morales, Soñadores, se centra en la búsqueda por encontrar un hogar en un nuevo lugar. El trayecto de Yuyi y su hijo Kelly no...

Presents a young reader's adaptation of the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.

"Cuando sus padres deciden cruzar ilegalmente la frontera mexicana en busca del sueño americano, Reyna y sus hermanos se ven forzados a vivir con su abuela, mientras esperan que sus padres regresen para comenzar una nueva vida junto a ellos. Pero las cosas no salen como lo planearon, y Reyna debe preparar su propia travesía hacia el otro lado, para vivir con el hombre que ha cautivado su imaginación durante años: su padre ausente. La distancia...