The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her compelling experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her "compelling...unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) memoir, The Distance Between Us.

When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.

But when things don't go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us beautifully captures the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 09/06/2016
ISBN: 9781481463713
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016
School Library Journal 07/01/2016 pg. 98
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 96

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 184114 / Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 11