La LíneaSquare Fish
Miguel is 15 years old and parentless in Mexico. His parents have fled to the United States for a better life with the plan of sending for Miguel and his younger sister Elena. More times passes then expected when Miguel finally recieves word to start his journey to America and finally cross la línea. On his way, however, he runs into trouble after trouble, the first being that Elena has followed him. Now he has to get both of them across the border but it will be hard, almost impossible.
WARNING: Not applicable for this book.
Personal opinion:
I didn't love this book and I didn't hate it either. I'm pretty neutral. There were parts that seemed realistic and parts that didn't. Overall, it was a good story, though. I read afterwards that Jaramillo wrote it for her immigrants in her middle school classes so that they could have something to identify with. It definitely is informative about some of the dangers that people have to face in making the dangerous journey. Jaramillo used Spanish words a lot. You can always tell what's going on without them, but I think that if I didn't have a background in some Spanish that I would be annoyed. But that's just me.
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