Booktalking "Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco" by Judith Robbins Rose

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Jacinta Juarez thinks that she is the luckiest girl in the world when she meets news anchor Kathryn Dawson Dahl. The famous TV star becomes her Amiga, her mentor. The girl cherishes her time with Miss, as she refers to her. She guards Miss protectively, and she does not want to share her with anyone. They go shopping together and spend quality time with each other; the kid's life is blissful when they hang out. 

However, trouble is brewing on the home front. Jacinta's father is deported, and soon her mother disappears as well. The girl struggles to care for her siblings while avoiding the gaze of the Administration for Children's Services. The race to survive and save her mama dominates Jacinta's young life.



Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco by Judith Robbins Rose, 2015

I love how the girl focuses on language in the book; the main character is actually trilingual.