Between Us and Abuela, Mitali Perkins
Between Us and Abuela, Mitali Perkins
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Between Us and Abuela
A Family Story from the Border

Author: Mitali Perkins

Narrator: Lori Felipe-Barkin

Unabridged: 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2022

Synopsis

From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela, a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States.It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea.Here is a heartwarming tale of families and the miracle of love.

About Mitali Perkins

Mitali Perkins is an award-winning author of novels and picture books for young readers, including You Bring the Distant Near; Forward Me Back to You; Rickshaw Girl; and Bamboo People, among others. Her books have been nominated for the National Book Award, won the South Asia Book Award, and listed as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and School Library Journal. Born in Kolkata, India, Perkins has lived in India, Ghana, Cameroon, Great Britain, Mexico, Bangladesh, Thailand, and the United States (Massachusetts, New York, and California). Perkins's work is known for strong characters who cross all kinds of borders, seek community, and promote justice. She and her husband have two sons and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on November 29, 2023

Powerful book that looks at this most critical of issues - art is fantastic! This book takes you to the border and introduces you to the people who live there. So often individuals are reduced to numbers; and it is very hard to connect with numbers in an emotional way. Books like this take us back t......more

Goodreads review by Jacquelyn on January 22, 2021

Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border is a winner of the Américas Award ALA Notable Social Studies Trade Book NCTE Charlotte Shuck Honor Awards Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of the Year. This book is written by Mitali Perkins and illustrated by......more

Goodreads review by Mariah on November 20, 2023

I don't usually include children's books on this account, but my daughter brought this home from school, and I was so touched reading it to my kids that I wanted to share it here. A beautiful, accessible story that is now one of my Christmas season favorites. ❤️......more

Goodreads review by Abby on January 19, 2022

The story Between Us and Abuela, A Family Story from the Border by Mitali Perkins is a wonderful story of a family visiting their grandmother. They meet their grandmother at the Mexican-American border, separated by a fence and being watched by border patrol. The location of this story is important......more

Goodreads review by Ghazal on March 30, 2022

Could not read this without crying. Beautiful, poignant, humanizing story.......more

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