Separated by the Border

Description:

"Gena Thomas tells the story of five-year-old Julia, whose harrowing journey with her mother from Honduras to the United States took her from cargo trailer to detention center to foster care. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love"--

subjects: Foster mothers,  Biography,  Hondurans,  Immigrants,  Family relationships,  Unaccompanied immigrant children,  Emigration and immigration,  Social aspects,  Government policy,  Immigrant children,  Legal status, laws