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Key ideas from the book
- Victor sets out to find work in the United States and support his family in Mexico.
- The story presents the dangers and hardships of attempting to cross the border without a smuggler’s help.
- Victor’s journey involves hunger, extreme weather, and arduous travel through the Arizona desert.
- The novel offers young readers a fictional perspective on migration and family economic pressure.
- Readers interested in realistic adventure and survival fiction will find those subjects at the center of the book.
About Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs’s 2007 young adult novel follows fifteen-year-old Victor Flores, who heads north from Mexico after falling crop prices threaten his family’s ability to eat. He hopes to find work in the United States and send money home, but cannot afford a smuggler’s help.
Victor’s attempt to cross the border becomes a struggle to survive as he travels by train and truck and faces hunger, extreme temperatures, and difficult miles in the Arizona desert. Written as realistic adventure and survival fiction, the novel may interest young readers looking for a story about migration, family hardship, and the risks of crossing a border.
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