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UN BESTSELLER NACIONAL Incluido en la lista de bestsellers de USA Today ★ Suma esta novela distópica, relevante y oportuna, a tus colecciones de libros juveniles en español.–Sharon Sherman, School Library Journal La cofundadora de la Marcha de las Mujeres, Paola Mendoza, debuta en la literatura juvenil con un futuro distópico cercano, donde una joven y su hermano deben escapar de un gobierno xenofóbico para encontrar santuario... Es 2032 en Estados Unidos. A todos los ciudadanos les han instalado chips que registran cada uno de sus movimientos. En esta América futurista, es casi imposible sobrevivir como inmigrante indocumentado. Y sobrevivir es lo único que Vali quiere: una vida estable y feliz, como la que han logrado construir en el pequeño pueblo de Vermont. La situación cambia radicalmente cuando el chip de su madre deja de funcionar y las Fuerzas de Deportación llegan al pueblo. La familia tiene que huir rumbo a casa de la tía Luna. El destino final es California, ese estado santuario alrededor del cual se levanta una muralla. Cuando la madre de Vali es detenida, antes incluso de iniciar su viaje, la joven de 16 años tendrá que atravesar impensables peligros para preservar la vida de su hermano menor. La esperanza prevalece. Porque todo el mundo puede encontrar un santuario en esta visión futurista de Paola Mendoza y Abby Sher. Lee también SOLIS, que expande el universo de Santuario. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A USA Today Bestseller ★ Purchase this relevant and timely dystopian YA novel for Spanish-language collections.–Sharon Sherman, School Library Journal 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. 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. Also read SOLIS, a company book to Sanctuary.

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★Gr 8 Up–Paillié offers a powerful translation of human rights activist Mendoza’s 2021 YA debut novel Sanctuary, coauthored by Sher. In the book’s dystopian 2032, all American citizens must wear an identification chip that is used for everything, from boarding the bus to buying groceries, which makes it impossible for undocumented immigrants to survive without one. When the mother of 16-year-old, Colombia-born Vali gets caught with a fake chip, her family must flee their home state of Vermont for the sanctuary Nation of California in order to escape the United States’ Deportation Forces. This mission becomes the crux of Mendoza and Sher’s borderland tale. As Vali and her family trek across the country, the fake ID chips in their wrists make them targets. Vali is especially worried that she is endangering the safety of her California-born seven-year-old brother, Ernesto. The frightening near-future world of Mendoza and Sher’s gripping novel doesn’t feel too distant from the present-day United States, and the book is not for the faint of heart. However, readers will be captivated by Vali’s journey as they get a well-crafted insight into the plight of undocumented immigrants and might be inspired to take action by story’s end. VERDICT Purchase this relevant and timely dystopian YA novel for Spanish-language collections.–Sharon Sherman, School Library Journal

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Paola Mendoza Es una autora, directora de cine, activista y artista que lucha en la línea de frente por los derechos humanos. Cofundadora de la Women’s March [Marcha de las Mujeres], también se desempeñó como su directora artística. Textos suyos han aparecido en The New York Times, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle e InStyle. Paola, además, es cofundadora de The Resistance Revival Chorus, The Soze Agency y The Meteor. Abby Sher Es una escritora y actriz galardonada. Es autora de Miss You Love You Hate You Bye [Te extraño tea mi te odio Adiós], All the Ways the World Can End [Todas las formas en las que el mundo puede acabarse], Breaking Free [Liberándome], Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Coulnd’t Stop Praying [Amén, amén, amén: Memorias de una chica que no podía dejar de rezar] y Kissing Snowflakes [Besar copos de nieve]. Uno de sus ensayos fue incluido en la primera temporada de Modern Love, serie de Amazon TV. Abby ha escrito y actuado para Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, HBO y NPR.

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