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Borderless / Jennifer De Leon.

by De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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Atheneum, 2023.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Fashion design -- Fiction.

Gangs -- Fiction.

Urban violence -- Fiction.

Guatemala -- Fiction.

Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction.

9781665904162 (hc.)

"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."

Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.

For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her passion, and her talent for making clothing out of unusual objects landed her a scholarship to Guatemala City’s most prestigious design school and a finalist spot in the school’s fashion show. Mamá is her biggest supporter, taking on extra jobs to pay for what the scholarship doesn’t cover, and she might be even more excited than Maya about what the fashion show could do for her future career. So when Mamá doesn’t come to the show, Maya doesn’t know what to think. But the truth is worse than she could have imagined. The gang threats in their neighborhood have walked in their front door -- with a boy Maya considered a friend, or maybe even more, among them. After barely making their escape, Maya and her mom have no choice but to continue their desperate flight all the way through Guatemala and Mexico in hopes of crossing the US border. They have to cross. They must cross! Can they?

Social problem fiction.

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