The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her compelling experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her "compelling...unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) memoir, The Distance Between Us.

When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.

But when things don't go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us beautifully captures the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781481463713
Age: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 184114 / Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016
School Library Journal 07/01/2016 pg. 98
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 96

About the Author
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.