To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra.".

Presents opposing viewpoints on three immigration issues: should illegal immigration be stopped; should legal immigration be restricted; and does bilingual education benefit non-English speaking children. The reader may practice distinguishing between objective fact telling and propaganda techniques.

"Ali and Zeynep are young and in love. But the two Anatolian teenagers are caught by circumstances that threaten to separate them forever. While Ali has found passage to Canada, war breaks out in 1914; he is declared an enemy alien and sent to an internment camp. Left behind in a country plunged into war and revolution, Zeynep is determined to stay alive and--despite impossible odds--cross a continent and an ocean to find Ali again."--Cover.