The Everything I Have Lost

Name: The Everything I Have Lost
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Sylvia Zeleny
ISBN: 9781664988668

Author: Sylvia Zeleny

Narrator: Lori Felipe-Barkin

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks

Published: 05/11/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Teens Selected List nomination.A coming-of-age story set in today’s Juarez.12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico.Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then Dad disappears and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. What’s happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm

Tough tough tough read.......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi

I truly enjoyed this book. Our heroine is a young girl living a very isolated life in Mexico, until one day she is sent to live with her aunt in El Paso, Tex. Life is very different and since she is so young the adults keep most of their truths away from her. This book is a diary, along the lines of......more

Goodreads review by Yadira

This book is phenomenal - on multiple levels. So much so that this is the first time I'm writing one of these reviews for a book. As a Latina American fighting for the rights of my Latin brothers and sisters on both sides of the boarder, this book gave me a better glimpse into the reality that so man......more