One of the 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Teens by the American Library Association
Life at home is so unbearable that these kids will risk their lives and face colossal challenges to escape to the United States and find safety.
This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual kids from among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who enter the US each year. In stark black and white illustrations, she helps us understand why some young people would literally risk their lives to seek safety in the US. Each one of them has been backed into a corner where emigration to the US seems like their only hope.
| ISBN: | 9781951491208 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2023 |
| Author: | Tracy White |
| Publisher: | Street Noise Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 168 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Cartoons and comic strips Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE) Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health |