Emmy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa
has created a brand-new, unique version of her adult memoir, which
was an NPR Best Book of 2020, for young readers, blending her story
with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds's Stamped.
"There
is no such thing as an illegal human being."
Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, a bestselling
author, and was the first Latina to found a national independent
nonprofit newsroom in the United States. But before all that, she was
a girl with big hair and even bigger dreams. Born in Mexico and
raised in the vibrant neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago, Maria was
always looking for ways to better understand the world around
her--and where she fit into it.
Here,
she combines stories from her life, beginning with her family's
harrowing experience of immigration, with truths about the United
States's long and complicated relationship with the people who cross
its borders, by choice or by force. Funny, frank, and
thought-provoking, Maria's voice is one you will want to listen to
again and again.
