The Distance Between Us

Name: The Distance Between Us
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.biz/authors/Reyna-Grande/27097999
ISBN: 9781797159454

Young Readers Edition

By Reyna Grande

Read by Alejandra Reynoso

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About The Book

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir, The Distance Between Us—“an important account of the many ways immigration impacts children” (Booklist, starred review).

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 sheds light on the immigrant experience beautifully capturing 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).

Appearances

JUN 6

2:00PM

In Person

Reyna Grande discusses Migrant Heart with Julissa Arce at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

501 N Main St

Los Angeles, CA 90012

JUN 7

12:00AM

In Person

Reyna Grande discusses MIGRANT HEART at Latina Fest

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Jesse Brewer Jr. Park

3777 Menlo Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90007

JUN 15

7:00PM

In Person

Reyna Grande discusses MIGRANT HEART with Leslie Priscilla

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Vroman's Bookstore

695 E. Colorado Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91101

JUN 17

6:30PM

In Person

Reyna Grande discusses MIGRANT HEART with Leslie Priscilla

The Untold Story Bookstore

301 N Anaheim Blvd

Ste D

Anaheim, CA 92805

About The Author

Photograph by Ara Arbabzadeh

Reyna Grande

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 Migrant Heart, 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.