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Sylvia Patience

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Sylvia Patience lives in Santa Cruz, California with her family. She is a poet and author of four other, as yet unpublished, middle grade children’s novels including "The Double Crossing," historical fiction about the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, and "Wandering Time," contemporary magical realism about "wandering" with a grandmother with Alzheimer's. ...more

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The Double Crossing Cover

I still don’t have a release date for the book, but I do have a cover. See what you think. According to the publisher, that was the main thing holding us up, so it will be soon, I hope.

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Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum

by Tobin Hansen

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Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

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Migrations

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I'm in awe of the historical details in Home So Far Away by Judith Berlowitz. It took me to Spain in the 1930s with descriptions of places, foods, wines (I wanted to taste them and almost could), and languages. This is superbly researched historical ...more
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