lions of children that live as undocumented immigrants and brings to light the challenges they face to live a normal life in the United States. The author manages to make it easy to understand the implications of immigration law. Although the characters of the story struggle against all odds, there is humor and warmth throughout the story.

SUMMARY: Sofía, Rosa, and Antonio are high school seniors who are very different from one another. But they form a special bond when they discover that all three are undocumented minors. Their friendship gets them through when their lives take unexpected turns. Together they accept who they are, join the DREAMers movement, and start fighting for their rights.

SOÑADORES is an easy reader novella for Spanish Learners. Third year and four year students will find it accessible and engaging. The story is written in conversational Spanish, using simple grammatical structures in various forms of the past, and plenty of repetition. With about 680 unique words, it tells a 8,300-word story. There is an illustration for every chapter and A full glossary is included at the end of the book.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: All the characters in SOÑADORES are fictional, but I used my real life experience and the experiences of my immigrant friends to write this novella. One of my goals is to use storytelling to humanize conversations about immigrants.