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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.

I stumbled across this one at the library and feel it‘s a great book about families that straddle 2 worlds. #childrensbook

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.

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

This one made me cry. A simple story about life on both sides of the Rio Grande, told through the eyes of a child.