A winner of the Pura Belpré Award, now in Spanish! We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times.
This book won the Pura Belpré Award for Children\'s Literature and the California Book Award, and it was named a best book of the year by Kirkus and the Chicago Public Library..
Now more than ever, Efrén must channel his inner Soperboy to help take care of and try to reunite his family.
His worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn\'t return from work and is deported across the border to Tijuana, México.
But Efrén worries about his parents; although he\'s American-born, his parents are undocumented.
Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved. -- Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efrén Nava\'s Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares.
This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness.
A winner of the Pura Belpré Award, now in Spanish! We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times
