Shayla Ruiz is a 15-year-old girl living with her immigrant parents and two little brothers—a poor family living day-to-day in a trailer. One day, she goes out for a run and gets captured by U.S. Border Patrol. Even though she’s an American citizen, she gets sent to Mexico—a country where she doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t know the language, and where she wasn’t born. She tries to cross back into the U.S. and her ticket home was to find a coyote.
The simple narrative keeps you engaged most of the way. You feel for her with everything she’s going through as if you were in her shoes. Most of her time is spent with the coyote, whom she’s fearful and comforted by. It’s a LONG journey home, so there’s some lagging areas that slowed it down.
A worthy read overall.
My rating: 4 stars
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