This document summarizes several books about Mexican immigration and migrant experiences, including Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Franciso Jimenez, and Dark Water by Laura McNeal. It lists the awards and honors received by each book. It also briefly describes two online resources about immigration stories from yesterday and today. The document concludes with references to research on Mexican immigration patterns and sources for the images.

1. Mexican Immigration
Ashley Justice
LIBR 264
Summer 2011

3. Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
Awards & Honors
Junior Library Guild Selection
Southwest Book Award
Notable Books for a Global
Society (IRA) 2007
New York Public Library Books
for the Teenage
Americas Award Commended
Title
Heartland Award

4. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a
Migrant Child by Franciso Jimenez
Awards & Honors
Booklist Editors’ Choice 1997
Boston Globe Horn Book Award for
Fiction
Americas Award
California Library Association John
and Patricia Beatty Award
Jane Addams Honor Book Award
New York Public Library 1999 Book
for the Teenage
American Library Association Best
Book for Young Adults

5. Dark Water by Laura McNeal
Awards & Honors
National Book Award
Finalist

6. Denied, Detained, Deported: The Dark Side
of American Immigration by Ann Bausum
Awards & Honors
2010 Carter G. Woodson
Book Award
International Reading
Association Notable Books for a
Global Society
Notable Social Studies Trade
Book for Young People
Chicago Public Library Best of
the Best in 2009

7. Stories of Yesterday and Today:
Immigration
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/

8. Immigration:
Moving Towards Hope
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/family/immigration/index.html

9. References
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Passel, J., & Cohn, D. Pew Research Center, Pew
Hispanic Center. (2009). Mexican immigrants: How
many come? how many leave?

10. Image Sources
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Slide 2: (left)
http://blogs.furman.edu/com221sp10b/category/antiimmigration/, (right)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/27/midm
orning1/
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Slide 3: www.goodreads.com
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Slide 4: www.isbnlib.com
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Slide 5: www.kbgressitt.com
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Slide 6: www.tatteredcover.com
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Slide 7: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/
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Slide 8:
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/family/immigration/index.html