Three starred reviews! "Harrowing but deeply illuminating." --School Library Journal A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this timely and unflinching novel by award-winning author Alexandra Diaz. The bed creaks under Santiago's shivering body. They say a person's life flashes by before dying. But it's not his whole life. Just the events that led to this. The important ones, and the ones Santiago would rather forget. The coins in Santiago's hand are meant for the bus fare back to his abusive abuela's house. Except he refuses to return; he won't be missed. His future is uncertain until he meets the kind, maternal Maria Dolores and her young daughter, Alegria, who help Santiago decide what comes next: He will accompany them to el otro lado, the United States of America. They embark with little, just backpacks with water and a bit of food. To travel together will require trust from all parties, and Santiago is used to going it alone. None of the three travelers realizes that the journey through Mexico to the border is just the beginning of their story.

Winner of the International Latino Book Award

"An incredibly heartfelt depiction of immigrants and refugees in a land full of uncertainty." --Kirkus Reviews

"Insightful, realistic picture...especially important reading for today's children." --Booklist

"Fans of The Only Road will appreciate...while teachers and librarians may find the text useful to counter unsubstantiated myths about Central Americans fleeing to the US." --School Library Journal

Jaime and Ángela discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States in this timely sequel to the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Only Road.

After crossing Mexico into the United States, Jaime Rivera thinks the worst is over. Starting a new school can't be that bad. Except it is, and not just because he can barely speak English. While his cousin Ángela fits in quickly, with new friends and after-school activities, Jaime struggles with even the idea of calling this strange place "home." His real home is with his parents, abuela, and the rest of the family; not here where cacti and cattle outnumber people, where he can no longer be himself--a boy from Guatemala.

When bad news arrives from his parents back home, feelings of helplessness and guilt gnaw at Jaime. Gang violence in Guatemala means he can't return home, but he's not sure if he wants to stay either. The US is not the great place everyone said it would be, especially if you're sin papeles--undocumented--like Jaime. When things look bleak, hope arrives from unexpected places: a quiet boy on the bus, a music teacher, an old ranch hand. With his sketchbook always close by, Jaime uses his drawings to show what it means to be a true citizen.

Powerful and moving, this touching sequel to The Only Road explores overcoming homesickness, finding ways to connect despite a language barrier, and discovering what it means to start over in a new place that alternates between being wonderful and completely unwelcoming.

Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to describe asset returns. Traditionally, this has meant the multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution. More recently, theoretical and empirical work in financial economics has employed the multivariate Student (and other) distributions which are members of the elliptically symmetric class. There is also a growing body of work which is based on skew-elliptical distributions. These probability models all exhibit the property that the marginal distributions differ only by location and scale parameters or are restrictive in other respects. Very often, such models are not supported by the empirical evidence that the marginal distributions of asset returns can differ markedly. Copula theory is a branch of statistics which provides powerful methods to overcome these shortcomings. This book provides a synthesis of the latest research in the area of copulae as applied to finance and related subjects such as insurance. Multivariate non-Gaussian dependence is a fact of life for many problems in financial econometrics. This book describes the state of the art in tools required to deal with these observed features of financial data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Finance.

Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to describe asset returns. Traditionally, this has meant the multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution. More recently, theoretical and empirical work in financial economics has employed the multivariate Student (and other) distributions which are members of the elliptically symmetric class. There is also a growing body of work which is based on skew-elliptical distributions. These probability models all exhibit the property that the marginal distributions differ only by location and scale parameters or are restrictive in other respects. Very often, such models are not supported by the empirical evidence that the marginal distributions of asset returns can differ markedly. Copula theory is a branch of statistics which provides powerful methods to overcome these shortcomings. This book provides a synthesis of the latest research in the area of copulae as applied to finance and related subjects such as insurance. Multivariate non-Gaussian dependence is a fact of life for many problems in financial econometrics. This book describes the state of the art in tools required to deal with these observed features of financial data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Finance.

Cuando cruzaba la frontera de Mexico con Estados Unidos un muchacho se detiene por ICE en esta novela actual e impavida escrita por la autora galardonada Alexandra Diaz. La cama cruje bajo el peso del cuerpo tembloroso de Santiago. Dicen que la vida de una persona pasa por su mente antes de morir. Pero esto no es toda su vida. Son solo los acontecimientos que lo llevaron a esta situacion. Los mas importantes y los que Santiago quisiera olvidar. Las monedas en la mano de Santiago son para el boleto del autobus para regresar a la casa de su abuela abusiva. Pero el rehusa regresar. No lo van a extranar. Su futuro es incierto hasta que se encuentra con Maria Dolores, carinosa y maternal y su joven hija, Alegria. Este encuentro ayuda a Santiago a decidir lo que va a hacer. Va a acompanarlas hasta el otro lado, hasta los Estados Unidos de America. Emprenden el viaje con muy pocas cosas, solo mochilas con agua y un poquito de comida. Viajar juntos requiere que confien unos en los otros y Santiago esta acostumbrado a ir solo. Ninguno de los tres viajeros se da cuenta de que la travesia a traves de Mexico hasta la frontera es solamente el comienzo de su historia.

Este ensaio propoe a novela grafica como um genero literario, tendo como eixo estruturador a obra teorica de Rodolph Toepffer, e o seu conceito de literatura em estampas, um novo genero escrito atraves de texto e imagem. Centrado nos generos narrativos, dara especial destaque ao romance, cuja forma proteica permite assimilar novas formas romanescas, nomeadamente a novela grafica. No universo da novela grafica, a adaptacao de obras literarias, para alem de constituir uma pratica corrente, definida pelos historiadores como uma das suas "tendencias" mais marcantes do curso da historia da banda desenhada portuguesa, e um fator decisivo para a constituicao do genero.

Cuando cruzaba la frontera de Mexico con Estados Unidos un muchacho se detiene por ICE en esta novela actual e impavida escrita por la autora galardonada Alexandra Diaz. La cama cruje bajo el peso del cuerpo tembloroso de Santiago. Dicen que la vida de una persona pasa por su mente antes de morir. Pero esto no es toda su vida. Son solo los acontecimientos que lo llevaron a esta situacion. Los mas importantes y los que Santiago quisiera olvidar. Las monedas en la mano de Santiago son para el boleto del autobus para regresar a la casa de su abuela abusiva. Pero el rehusa regresar. No lo van a extranar. Su futuro es incierto hasta que se encuentra con Maria Dolores, carinosa y maternal y su joven hija, Alegria. Este encuentro ayuda a Santiago a decidir lo que va a hacer. Va a acompanarlas hasta el otro lado, hasta los Estados Unidos de America. Emprenden el viaje con muy pocas cosas, solo mochilas con agua y un poquito de comida. Viajar juntos requiere que confien unos en los otros y Santiago esta acostumbrado a ir solo. Ninguno de los tres viajeros se da cuenta de que la travesia a traves de Mexico hasta la frontera es solamente el comienzo de su historia.