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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Reading Association Inc.
Edited by Donald R. Gallo, First Crossing includes many award-winning authors, all of whom shine a light on what it's like to be a teen immigrant in the United States--the positive aspects as well as the struggles.
Parents play a major role in many of this compilation's stories, but the bond between child and parent seems most apparent in the title story, "First Crossing." In this story, Pam Munoz Ryan details the methods used to smuggle people across the Mexican-American border and the effects on those smuggled, which can be as deadly and dangerous as the desert itself. Marco, 14, ventures for the first time to cross this treacherous border. Although anxious about the risk of crossing, Marco wants to accompany his father so that he too can help provide for the family. Marco, however, experiences more than he bargained for, finding himself curled up like a fetus, riding...
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