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My Two Border Towns
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles
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"A boy and his father cross the United States-Mexico border every other Saturday, visiting their favorite places, spending time with family and friends, and sharing in the responsibility of community care"--
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LibrarianRyan
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐5 ⭐
Wow. This powerful story is about a child who has the ability to move across the bridge between Mexico and the US, and how they help the families stuck on the bridge. These families cannot enter the US but also can‘t enter Mexico. Each country says we don‘t have room. But our young child narrator wishes for the day when his friends can travel the way they do, even if it is just a few miles back-and-forth.

LibrarianRyan This book is fantastic and looks at a border town in a different light. It still has a happy feel to it even though it‘s about a very heavy topic. It‘s a great start to teach children about some of the issues with modern immigration. 5mo
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Sharpeipup
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles
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I stumbled across this one at the library and feel it‘s a great book about families that straddle 2 worlds. #childrensbook

Zoes_Human I loved this one! 9mo
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mm991518
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My Two Border Towns is a Tomas Rivera Award winner. It is a children's literature fiction book and was published in 2021. It is about a son and his dad and their weekend ritual. It is a great picture of what it is like to be living by the U.S. and Mexico boarder. I think this would be a great read aloud for any age group and it has such a important reality of some peoples lives around that area. I would like to read this to my class one day.

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maggiedesantis
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles

Published in 2021, this book follows the story about a boy's life on the U.S.-Mexico border, visiting his favorite places on The Other Side with his father, spending time with family and friends, and sharing in the responsibility of community care
Awards won: Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
Purpose of Award: Honors authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience

maggiedesantis Author: David Bowles
Illustrator: Erika Meza
Date of publication: 2021
Genre: Picture Book
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WanderingBookaneer
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles
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This one made me cry. A simple story about life on both sides of the Rio Grande, told through the eyes of a child.

TheBookHippie Me too. I have this as a ReadALoud for classrooms. 2y
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TheBookHippie
My Two Border Towns | David Bowles
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READ A LOUD also #FOODANDLIT