Erica Moroz

Diane Guerrero

"The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, Diane Guerrero presents her personal story in this middle grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--

One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

My Family Divided

Jeni Enjaian

I applaud Guerrero's raw honesty in opening herself up to the scrutiny that comes from sharing her personal story. As I read through how she persisted despite the deportation of her parents, through the turmoil and uncertainty, many faces of my current students came to mind. Many of them experience the same thing right now. While the tone of the book shifted from memoir to campaigning towards the end, that shift made sense. I agree with everything she stated one hundred percent.

I highly recommend this book to multiple groups: all teachers and other educational professionals working in schools with a high immigrant (especially Hispanic) population, all students in those schools, all educators period, all young adults period. We all need to know what the others around us experience to develop empathy and compassion, something many lack.

My Family Divided One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

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