Dream Things True

Name: Dream Things True
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Marie Marquardt
ISBN: 9781501904752

Author: Marie Marquardt

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/01/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Love & Romance

Synopsis

Evan, a soccer star and the nephew of a conservative Southern Senator, has never wanted for much -- except a functional family. Alma has lived in Georgia since she was two-years-old, excels in school, and has a large, warm Mexican family. Never mind their differences, the two fall in love, and they fall hard. But when ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) begins raids on their town, Alma knows that she needs to tell Evan her secret. There's too much at stake. But how to tell her country-club boyfriend that she's an undocumented immigrant? That her whole family and most of her friends live in the country without permission. What follows is a beautiful, nuanced, well-paced exploration of the complications of immigration, young love, defying one's family, and facing a tangled bureaucracy that threatens to completely upend two young lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 23, 2016

Although I had a few issues with this novel (mainly with the plotting and the characters' decisions), I really loved the romance and Marie's passion to share the injustices of the immigration issues that plague our nation. Review to come.......more

Goodreads review by nick (the infinite limits of love) on August 20, 2015

Dream Things True first came to my attention thanks to Nereyda at Mostly YA Book Obsessed. We were having a discussion about immigration laws andundocumented immigrants. I was looking forward to reading the book especially because the author seemed to be well-versed in the topic and I knew she woul......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 23, 2016

2.5 stars (for GR, because, with GR's rating system, 2 stars = "it was okay")* Dream Things True is an interesting book. On one hand, it's all about immigration. On another, it's about how people with completely different backgrounds can come together, find something important in each other, and look......more

Goodreads review by Reading is my Escape on March 18, 2017

Alma thought back to the day she learned that she wasn’t in status – that she was a person who was here but not welcome, embedded in this place, but also somehow apart from it. None of it mattered. None of it mattered because she was, as she had always known, one of the kids stuck in between. Alma......more

Goodreads review by Mrs. on May 30, 2015

Alma's family is full of secrets while Evan's is full of expectations. He's a soccer star from the privileged part of town and she's the landscaper's daughter. She wants to go to college, but is afraid that her family will be sent back to Mexico if she applies. He is expected to take an athletic sch......more