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The Far Away Brothers: Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America

Lauren Markham

This true story follows identical twins Ernesto and Raúl Flores, seventeen-year-olds who leave El Salvador’s violence to seek new lives in California as undocumented immigrants. After Ernesto comes into conflict with MS-13, he flees; Raúl follows because he fears being mistaken for his brother. Their northward journey includes crossing the Rio Grande and Texas desert before they encounter immigration authorities. In California, the brothers fight to remain, survive, and belong.

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Lexile Text Measure
890L
Themes
Belonging · Immigration And Migration · Resilience · Siblings · War And Conflict
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Published
August 20, 2019
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9781984829771
Language
English
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