Somos Como Las Nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it is like to be them.

This powerful book by award-winning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta describes the terrible process that leads young people to undertake the extreme hardships and risks involved in the journey to what they hope will be a new life of safety and opportunity. A refugee from El Salvador's war in the eighties, Argueta was born to explain the tragic choice confronting young Central Americans today who are saying goodbye to everything they know because they fear for their lives. This book brings home their situation and will help young people who are living in safety to understand those who are not.

Compelling, timely and eloquent, this book is beautifully illustrated by master artist Alfonso Ruano who also illustrated The Composition, considered one of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids by Scholastic's Parent and Child Magazine.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 10/11/2016
ISBN: 9781554988495
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.50h x 8.50w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016 pg. 92
School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 170
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 98
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2016
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2017 pg. 107