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Border Patrol

Joseph Bruchac

Border Patrol takes the form of Lily’s first-person verse narration. Lily is Mohawk and lives on Akwesasne, a reservation split by the international boundary between the United States and Canada. After spotting a child in a river, Lily joins her rescue. She learns the girl came from Myanmar as a refugee and was separated from her family at the border. Lily must choose how to reconnect the girl with her relatives without involving immigration authorities.

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Themes
Cultural Heritage · Family · Immigration And Migration
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Newmark Learning LLC
ISBN-13
9781478887775
Language
English
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