Jimena Prez Puede Volar/ Jimena Prez Can Fly (English And Spanish Edition) (Spanish And English Edition),Used

Jimena Prez Puede Volar/ Jimena Prez Can Fly (English And Spanish Edition) (Spanish And English Edition),Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG155885889X
Brand: Pinata Books
$13.75
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

Tenyearold Jimena Prez loves life with her parents in El Salvador. They sell fruit at the market, just like her grandmother and great grandmother did. Fruits / are a blessing / like you, Jimena, her mother tells her.But one day a group of boys threaten her friend Rosenda at school. You know / what will happen / to your family / if you don t join us. Jimena s parents, afraid gangs will try to recruit her too, decide she must go to the United States with her mother. She is excited and fearful, and doesn't want to leave her father, friends and dog Sultn. I felt sad / the way fruit looks / when it s past ripeness. By bus, train and on foot, mother and daughter make their way north, until one night, bright lights fill the sky and men in green uniforms rip Jimena from her mother.Imprisoned with children from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, Jimena and the others cry for their parents. One boy repeats over and over, My father s name is Marcos / He is in Los Angeles. A box full of books brings her some solace, reminding her of the ones donated to kids at the market in El Salvador. The letters kiss me / like my mama s words / like my papa s words / I am a little bird / Nothing can stop me / I can fly.In this poignant narrative poem for kids ages 1015, awardwinning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta movingly captures the fear that drives so many Central Americans to flee their countries and the anguish created by separating children from their parents at the US border. Putting a human face on the millions of people who flee their homelands each year, this book will help young people understand the difficulties of migration and leaving behind all that is dear.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed