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Growing up undocumented in the United States, Areli Morales didn t come across many children s books that addressed or helped make sense of her experience. So she wrote her own. Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story, illustrated by Luisa Uribe (Random House Studio, out June 8), depicts the author s early childhood in Puebla, Mexico, where she was born, and in New York City, where she grew up.
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Growing up undocumented in the United States, Areli Morales didn t come across many children s books that addressed or helped make sense of her experience. So she wrote her own. Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story, illustrated by Luisa Uribe (Random House Studio, out June 8), depicts the author s early childhood in Puebla, Mexico, where she was born, and in New York City, where she grew up.
Morales, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient – a program put in place by former president Barack Obama – shares her story to equip young readers with the necessary language to unpack and understand what people like her have gone through and to help readers going through a similar experience feel seen.
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Leah Henderson and her family live in a part of town that had to evacuate Sunday.
Henderson said they first found out about the evacuation by neighbors texting saying they had to leave. Not long after, she said they received the city s emergency text saying to evacuate.
Henderson and her family were able to stay with her sister out of town overnight. It was very stressful, especially with the dog in the backseat of not knowing when we were going to land or if we had time to stop and get food or when we would need clothes or toothbrushes, things like that. It was a lot of anxiety, said Henderson.