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Grab Hands and Run
Grab Hands and Run
Author: Frances Temple
An El Salvadorian family flees political oppression in their homeland and takes a perilous journey north, through Mexico to America, where they hope they will finda better life. A ?compelling, provocative, and exciting novel.??V. ?Details of the brutal realities in El Salvador are dexterously woven into the story of one family?s struggle to beat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780064405485
ISBN-10: 0064405486
Pages: 165
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Felipe's father, Jacinto, has disappeared. In El Salvador, when people disappear, they do not return.
Felipe remembers his father telling his mother, "If they come for me, you and the children grab hands and run. Go north, all the way to Canada."
Now Felipe, his sister, and his mother are running.
The way north is long and hard, fraught with danger -- and deadly people.
Felipe must learn the rules of survival at once: Avoid the authorities. Let Mama do the talking. Try to blend in.
But most of all, never lose hope - for Jacinto, and for freedom.

Ages 10 and up.


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