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2005., Back Bay books Call No: 304.87 Urr Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Recounts the case of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a region called Devil's Highway and were betrayed by a smuggler.
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2011, c2009., Scribner Call No: Social Issues Edition: 1st Scribner trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the lives and experiences of four Mexican women who have spent the majority of their lives in the United States, attending the same high school in Denver, Colorado, but only two of them have legal documentation.
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2018., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: REALISTIC F EVI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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By Sanna, Ellyn2006., Mason Crest Publishers Call No: 973.04 SAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Hispanic heritageSummary Note: An appreciation of the history, heritage, and culture of Mexican Americans -- from sports to politics, religion to the arts, food to entertainment.
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c2009, Pre-adolescent, Capstone Press Call No: 973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: You choose booksSummary Note: "Describes the experiences of Mexican citizens who immigrate to America legally and illegally. The reader's choices reveal historical and modern details about where they settled, the jobs they found, and the difficulties they faced"--Provided by publisher.
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2014., Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Call No: Social Issues Edition: 1st ed., 2014. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the National Underwater Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded, beat-up public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much-but two inspiring science teachers had convinced them that four impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean should try to build an underwater robot"--Provided by publisher.