A review by cdjdhj
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs

4.0

I read this book as a requirement for a college class I am taking on "Boys and Literacy." It is a pretty good Young Adult book by one of my favorite YA authors, Will Hobbs. It deals with a young Mexican man crossing the US border illegally to make money to send back to his family in Mexico so they won't starve. While it is fiction, it seemed to be quite well researched and it did provide an entirely different perspective on illegal immigration than we usually get here in Arizona. The author wrote this bookin 2004 and I think things are probably much worse now for those coming across the border. This was a quick interesting read, and I feel like I learned something by reading it.