By Francisco X. Stork My first contact with U.S. immigration laws came when I was nine years old. That’s when my adoptive father, Charles Stork, attempted to bring my mother and me into the United States. At the Stanton Street Bridge to El Paso, my father was asked to park his old Rambler in an … [Read more...] about Writing About Migrant Justice and Asylum for a Ya Audience
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Second-Generation Protagonists Deal With a Cultural Divide Too
By Reina Luz Alegre We Need Diverse Books published a cover reveal for The Dream Weaver, which you can read here. The Dream Weaver is a fun, heartfelt summer read about a girl who helps her grandpa save the beachside bowling alley he’s owned for decades. But it’s also, more subtly, a story … [Read more...] about Second-Generation Protagonists Deal With a Cultural Divide Too