An eloquent and timely plea for understanding refugees. Why are
young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to
seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central
America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it
is like to be them. This powerful book by award-winning Salvadoran
poet Jorge Argueta describes the terrible process that leads young
people to undertake the extreme hardships and risks involved in the
journey to what they hope will be a new life of safety and
opportunity. A refugee from El Salvador’s war in the eighties,
Argueta was born to explain the tragic choice confronting young
Central Americans today who are saying goodbye to everything they
know because they fear for their lives. This book brings home their
situation and will help young people who are living in safety to
understand those who are not. Compelling, timely and eloquent, this
book is beautifully illustrated by master artist Alfonso Ruano who
also illustrated The Composition, considered one of the 100
Greatest Books for Kids by Scholastic’s Parent and Child
Magazine. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English
Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such
questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration,
rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem,
or song. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the
illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate
understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral
language. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories,
dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using
terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each
successive part builds on earlier sections.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's
illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a
story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or
setting) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in
a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the
text; summarize the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5 Explain major
differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the
structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama
(e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage
directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7 Make connections between the text of a
story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text,
identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and
directions in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a theme
of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how
characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the
speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as
metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual
and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty
of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction,
folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1 Cite textual
evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed
through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct
from personal opinions or judgments. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the
impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence,
chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text
and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of
reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an
audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting
what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they
perceive when they listen or watch. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.9
Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g.,
stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms
of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
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