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"Did
you come from the other side? You know, from Mexico?" So begins the friendship
between Prietita and Joaquín, the young boy who, with his mother,
has crossed the Rio Grande to Texas in search of a new life.
Prietita, a brave young Mexican American girl, defends Joaquín
from the neighborhood kids who taunt him with shouts of mojado
or "wetback." But what can she do to protect Joaquín and his mother
from the Border Patrol as the van cruises slowly up the street toward
their hiding place?
Writer Gloria Anzaldúa is a major Mexican American literary voice.
Illustrator Consuelo Méndez is a noted Latin American artist. Both
grew up in south Texas. In this, their first collaboration, they have
captured not only the hardship of daily life on the border but also the
beauty of the landscape and the dignity and generosity of spirit that
Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants share.
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