The crossing
By: Gary Paulsen.
Series: Laurel-leaf books
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780440205821
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction.; Emotional problems -- Fiction.; Mexico -- Fiction.; Texas -- Fiction.; Mexico -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.