Solito

Javier Zamora tells the grueling story of his seven-week journey as a nine-year-old boy from El Salvador to the United States. It's a story of frightening boat trips, sudden police appearances, debilitating desert crossings, and arrests. The boy and his fellow immigrants suffer from a lack of water, a lack of food, the cold of the night, and the heat of the day. And it's all told in harrowing detail, in the beautiful language of a brilliant poet.

I'd love to see the people who make and enforce our laws read this book.