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Enrique's journey, Sonia Nazario

eng

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non fiction

Enrique's journey

60856186

Sonia Nazario

Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he made the dangerous trek up the length of Mexico, clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. He and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. To evade bandits and authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call the Train of Death. It is an epic journey, one thousands of children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.--From publisher description