Tonatiuh Duncan - Undocumented: A Worker's Fight - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Award - winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh's picture book is a gorgeous timely and necessary offering about the daily plight of undocumented workers in the United States (Library Journal). Undocumented: A Worker's Fight is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Every day these men and women join the work force and contribute positively to society. The story is told via the ancient Mixtec codex accordion - fold format. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide for his family. Struggling for money Juan crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker living in a poor neighborhood working hard to survive. Though he is able to get a job as a busboy at a restaurant he is severely undercompensated he receives less than half of the minimum wage! Risking his boss reporting him to the authorities for not having proper resident papers Juan risks everything and stands up for himself and the rest of the community. Multiple Pura Belpr Medal and Honor - awarded Tonatiuh channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of Pre - Columbian art forms presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip - box. Booklist (Starred Review)
Title: Undocumented: A Worker's Fight
Author(s): Tonatiuh Duncan
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419728549
Pages: 26 Pages
Publication Date: 8/7/2018
Category: Migration, Immigration & Emigration