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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.