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Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado

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“Did you come from the other side? You understand, from Mexico?” So begins the friendship between Prietita and Joaquín, the young boy who, with his mother, has crossed the Rio Grande River to Texas on the lookout for 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 give protection to Joaquín and his mother from the Border Patrol as the van cruises slowly up the street toward their hiding place? Author Gloria Anzaldúa is an enormous Mexican American literary voice. Illustrator Consuelo Méndez is a noted Latin American artist. Both grew up in South Texas. On this, their first collaboration, they have got captured not only the hardship of day-to-day life at the border, but also the wonderful thing about the landscape and the dignity and generosity of spirit that the Mexican Americans and the Mexican immigrants share.

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