Reyna grande biography

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Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoirs, The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant.

Reyna grande biography

Her other works include the novels, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006), Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009), and A Ballad of Love and Glory (Atria, 2022), a novel set during the Mexican-American War.

The Distance Between Us is also available as a young reader’s edition from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division, Aladdin. She is the co-editor of an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022).

Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges, and cities across the country.

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