Search Results: Returned 5 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 5
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2005., Simon & Schuster Call No: MEMOIR Edition: Touchstone ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recounts his growing up in poverty in Los Angeles, his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, and his struggle to overcome prejudice, drugs, and violence.
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2005., Simon & Schuster Call No: B Rodriguez Edition: [New] Touchstone ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitabley claim its participants.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Call No: 973 .046872 Edition: Young readers editi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a middle-grade adaptation of the memoir of Reyna Grande about her childhood longing for her absent father, who left Mexico to find work in America to make a dream life for his family. She dreamed of his return, but things didn't work out like that--instead, Reyna found herself following him on her own dangerous journey from El Otro Lado to find him. Along the way, books and writing helped save her.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Call No: B Edition: Young readers ed., 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed"--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Atria Books Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st Atria Books har Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood. (Socio-Economic Diversity).