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Stork, Francisco X.

Illegal

295 pp. | Scholastic | August, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-338-31055-9 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-338-60528-0
(2) YA In this sequel to Disappeared (rev. 9/17), Mexican journalist Sara Zapata is now in the Fort Stockton Detention Center in Texas, "lost in a sea of asylum petitions," after she and her brother Emiliano fled Juárez with a cell phone belonging to the head of a drug trafficking ring. While Sara stays to plead for asylum, seventeen-year-old Emiliano proceeds alone to pursue the mysterious Big Shot behind the trafficking ring in the United States. Stork's suspenseful narrative alternates between Sara's and Emiliano's first-person points of view. Both protagonists have a strong inner compass guiding them to do the right thing, and providing a moral center to a tale that incorporates family, immigration, detention centers, human trafficking, and the web of evil that spreads from a city in Mexico right up to the Washington lawyers and government officials who profit from it. The story stands alone, but readers will likely want to read Disappeared for the bigger picture.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2020

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