Name: Sanctuary
Rating: 3.928571428571428 (14 reviews)
ISBN: 9781984815712

Abby Sher

Paola Mendoza

In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.

Sanctuary

Stephanie Alvarez

This book addresses such an important topic, but the corniness of how it is written felt annoying and made it uneasy for me to symphatise with the main character 

Polina 

Stephanie Ridiculous

Brutal, and totally plausible. This is akin to the Handmaid's Tale, but if it was about xenophobia & racism.

Sarahi Flores

Hold still my heart because this took a toll on me I really loved this book because it captures all the problems we are basically facing at the moment. This is a works of fiction but some things has already happened. This is a scary realization how American can be going towards this path.A dystopian novel that basically makes you fear for your safety and the safety of you loved ones. A piece of paper that determines your status to this so call Land of the Free.Paola and Abby did a great job capturing the emotion and distress of what it is to survive and how far anyone would go to find Sanctuary. I cried so much because despite being a group of make believe characters, they portray the real lives of what some people are actually going through.Vali, the protagonist, had no choice but find a way to find he way across states for Sanctuary with her little brother. Imagine that. With no parents and no way of a safe passage. That's scary and I felt for themInstead of picking up a book such as, American Dirt, why not pick up this book? This is more real as it can get with America. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. It's something you don't want to put down and it will just see things differently.

Charmaine

This book was so powerful. It opened my eyes to the injustices of the world — terrible and upsetting. But despite all of this, there are still survivors. People who fight and fight for a better future.

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near-future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary--now in paperback! It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in small-town Vermont, but when Vali's mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town, they are forced to flee. Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her tía Luna's in California, a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country. But when Vali's mother is detained before their journey even really begins, Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it's too late. Gripping and urgent, co-authors Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher have crafted a narrative that is as haunting as it is hopeful in envisioning a future where everyone can find sanctuary.

Sanctuary

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