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My Family Divided
My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope | Diane Guerrero, Erica Moroz
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Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black; before wow-ing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin; and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was at school, her undocumented immigrant parents were taken from their home, detained, and deported. Guerrero's life, which had been full of the support of a loving family, was turned upside down. Reflective of the experiences of millions of undocumented immigrant families in the United States, Guerrero's story is at once heartbreaking and hopeful.
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megnews
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If Diane Guerrero hadn‘t made it big, the story of children of undocumented immigrants who are deported may have never been told. This is the middle grade version of her memoir and I wouldn‘t hesitate to recommend it for school and classroom libraries so children can be familiarized with the issues immigrant families face and so children of undocumented immigrants know they are not alone.

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melodyp
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My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero is a B/NF-LC/IR book about the authors life as an undocumented immigrant and the struggles she and her family had to face. Many may know the author from well-known series and it is important for students to realize that even famous people have had struggles in their lives. This book is an Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction nominee. #UCFLAE3414SP21

melodyp UDL 7.2 (Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity) and EL 4 (Link lesson topic to students‘ prior knowledge) are strategies that can be used in a lesson involving this book.
This website https://www.teachervision.com/subjects/social-studies-history/immigration has great resources for expanding on the topic of immigration that is talked about in this novel.
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Karissacurrier This book touches on very important topics that are essential we share in the classroom! I love the resource you included as well. The ESOL Strategy you chose would work well with this story, as well as the UDL principle. 3y
DrSpalding I added this to my stack. Excellent book selections and quality resources. This is an example of a book that should be in your intermediate classroom library. 3y
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Dandan0131
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This non-fiction book uses something that happened in her life and turned it into a book. She was highly qualified to write about deportation. She also uses different points of views such as hers, her parents, and grandparents.

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Dandan0131

I would use this as a silent reader in a second-third grade classroom. It is a small chapter book and has great information about what it's like to get your parents deported from the United States.

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Dandan0131

“My mother's parents clung to their hope.“

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booksensation
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Because this story is about her life I don‘t feel entitled to give this a star rating. However I do want to say that I loved this book! Full thoughts below ⬇️

booksensation So much of this book reminded me of my childhood.. I came here in 1999 with my parents and my cousin from Colombia and that fear of deportation was always very real and scary. I found that this book was a very nice representation of this issue for young audiences. 5y
booksensation I do want to give some trigger warnings for depression and suicide thoughts.. so please parents read this with your children.. I really thank Diane for sharing her story! 5y
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rigo.padilla
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A personal testimony of the damage that a deportation causes - trauma, financial and emotional strains, career sacrifices - while equipping with the resiliency, growth, hope, and fight for a better today/tomorrow.

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rigo.padilla

"The more I learned about the world, the more complicated I realized it was. The way different cultures and people intersected and diverged was like an endlessly layered riddle."

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ambam1987
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“Listen, give people a chance to speak- especially ones whose voices are often ignored. Learn about immigrants experiences from immigrants themselves, not just the news or the internet.”

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LibrarianRyan
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A perfect book for the times we are living in in the US

Out today

#CoverLove #MGedition

TheWordJar Yes! I loved her book! So glad my kids can read her story now too! Thank you thank you so much for your MG reads today!!! 6y
LibrarianRyan @TheWordJar thanks. I have 10 more to go. 6y
CSeydel So this is a mg edit of her adult book? 6y
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CSeydel I mean - not “adult book”. Book for adults? How does one say that? 6y
LibrarianRyan @CSeydel I'm not sure if it's an MG edit of her adult title, or a factionalized version for younger kids. Let me look. 6y
LibrarianRyan @CSeydel apparently it is non fiction, and just a younger version. I see quite a few people saying the cover doesn't go with the book because it evokes a fiction not s biography of a current person. 6y
CSeydel Interesting. I definitely get a young-reader vibe from the cover, but (maybe just because I‘m familiar with the story?) I don‘t get the “fiction” vibe. 6y
LibrarianRyan @CSeydel the soft pencil type illustration on the cover is very indicative of a 3-4th grade chapter book. Similar to the Vanderkemps or Lilly Porter. 6y
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