{"id":45416,"date":"2019-07-08T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45416"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:35:41","slug":"manuelito-by-elisa-amado-illustrated-by-abraham-urias-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/manuelito-by-elisa-amado-illustrated-by-abraham-urias-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuelito by Elisa Amado, illustrated by Abraham Urias [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45396\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Manuelito-Elisa-Amado-BookDragon-619x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Manuelito-Elisa-Amado-BookDragon-619x800.jpg 619w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Manuelito-Elisa-Amado-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/>Guatemalan-born\u00a0Canadian author Elisa Amado (<em>What Are You Doing?\u00a0<\/em>2011) \u201chas known many people whose lives have been disrupted, if not destroyed, by the conflicts that have occurred [in Guatemala] since the 1950s,\u201d her author\u2019s bio reveals. That violence continues in the Northern Triangle of Central America \u2013 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras \u2013 from which 200,000-plus unaccompanied children have fled.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is one of them; his parents hope to save him from the armed militia, gangs, and soldiers controlling their small village. Manuelito and best friend Coco Loco are sent with a coyote \u2013 a human trafficker \u2013 to cross into Mexico, but the coyote betrays them both. Through the kindness of similarly on-the-run strangers, Manuelito enters the U.S. to join his aunt in New York. Safety, alas, is short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Illustrator Urias\u00a0\u2013 Salvadoran-born, now U.S.-based \u2013 captures Manuelito\u2019s journey in raw black-and-white sketches, mirroring the dangerous urgency with quick, broad strokes. He directs detailed attention to close-ups of faces, drawing focus toward the individual humanity of desperate refugees. Their situations prove dire, and neither author nor artist holds back in presenting the life-and-death scenarios unrelentingly happening now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Manuelito-Elisa-Amado\/pid=9719700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Books for Youth: Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children, Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalan-born\u00a0Canadian author Elisa Amado (What Are You Doing?\u00a02011) \u201chas known many people whose lives have been disrupted, if not destroyed, by the conflicts that have occurred [in Guatemala] since the 1950s,\u201d her author\u2019s bio reveals. 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