Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
His mom left for America when he was eleven. He went to find her.
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you want to understand what a child actually experiences crossing from Central America to the United States and why they do it
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Enrique is eleven years old when his mother leaves Honduras for the United States. Eight years later he sets out to find her — riding freight trains through Mexico, evading gangs and police and the desert, making the journey that hundreds of thousands of Central American children have made. Nazario — a journalist — rode the trains herself to reconstruct the route. Pulitzer Prize winner. The young adult adaptation of the adult book makes this story available to the readers who most need it: the children who are Enrique, the children who grew up wondering where their parents went, the children who have never had to think about it and should.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Honduras • North America
- Voice
- Written by a Honduran author
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