Lupita and her brother Salvador decide to cross the Mexican border

Author: Patricia Beatty
Format: Paperback
Published: HarperCollins, 1992

When Lupita is just thirteen years old, her father is killed in a fishing accident. She and her brother Salvador decide to cross the Mexican border in search of financial security. It is a very long way from Lupita's small Mexican village to her aunt's home in California, and crossing the border is extremely dangerous. Once they are in America, Lupita and her brother are faced with a new language, hard labor, prejudice, and the constant threat of la migra, the immigration police. But Lupita finds it within herself to hope for a better tomorrow. This is an engrossing and timely story of Lupita's physical and emotional journey.