Undocumented : a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
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Undocumented : a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
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- Undocumented : a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
- Title remainder
- a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
- Statement of responsibility
- Dan-el Padilla Peralta
- Title variation
- Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
- Title variation remainder
- a Dominican boys odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
- Subject
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- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Biographies
- trueDominicans (Dominican Republic) -- Biography
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic) -- United States -- Biography
- trueHomeless boys -- Biography
- Illegal aliens -- United States -- Biography
- trueIllegal immigrants -- Biography
- trueImmigrants -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Personal transformation
- trueLife stories -- Identity | Immigrants
- Padilla Peralta, Dan-el
- truePadilla Peralta, Dan-el
- trueSociety and culture -- Immigration
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton class. Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed, and Dan-el's father returned home. But Dan-el's courageous mother was determined to make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers, she faced tremendous obstacles. While Dan-el was only in grade school, the family joined the ranks of the city's homeless. Dan-el, his mother, and brother lived in a downtown shelter where Dan-el's only refuge was the meager library. There he met Jeff, a young volunteer from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck by Dan-el's passion for books and learning. With Jeff's help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. There, Dan-el thrived. Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated these two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate, Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived, and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement. Undocumented is a classic story of the triumph of the human spirit. It also is the perfect cri de coeur for the debate on comprehensive immigration reform."--
- Award
- Alex Award, 2016
- Assigning source
- Publisher description
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- GZM
- Dewey number
- 323.631
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 930
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
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- E184.D6
- JV6456
- LC item number
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- P33 2015
- .P33 2015b
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 930
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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