el salvador

"Engaging images accompany information about El Salvador. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces young readers to the geography and culture of El Salvador.

Presents a novel in verse following the story of Misael Mart?nez, a boy from El Salvador who goes with his family to join a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. Sad to leave their beloved home, they still have many terrible reasons to do so, but when they reach Tijuana they are met with protests and tear gas.

Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

"Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a . . . journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America"--Provided by publisher.

"Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a . . . journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America"--Provided by publisher.

"[Presents the author's] perspective on what may be the largest massacre in modern Latin American history . . . includes data from half a dozen field trips, discussions of reconstruction and the fight for justice, and the relation of the massacre to the region"--Provided by publisher.

Richard Boyle, a journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship.