Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War
by María José Ferrada (Author), Ana Penyas (Illustrator), and Elisa Amado (Translator)
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Booktalk: On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the Mexique, expecting to return home in a few months. This was just a short trip, an extra-long summer vacation, they thought. But the war did not end in a few months, and the children stayed, waiting and wondering, in Mexico.
Snippet:
War is a very loud noise.
War is a huge hand that shakes you
and throws you on a ship.
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