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Cruzar El Limite/Border Town #1: Crossing the Line
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November 2012 Additional Conversation

Cruzar El Limite/Border Town #1:
Crossing the Line

by Malin Alegria

Scholastic Press


Malín Alegria, author of
Cruzar El Limite/Border Town #1: Crossing the Line

Malin Alegria

Malín Alegria
Malín Alegria was raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. She’s a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and received her MA in Education. She is a teacher, permaculture consultant, Aztec dancer, and performer. She’s preformed and wrote with Teatro Nopal & the WILL Collective. Malin is a member of SCBWI and TNAFA. “Estrella’s Quinceñera” was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. Her second novel “Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico” was released May 2007. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies “Once Upon a Cuento,” and “15 Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories”. Malin currently lives in San Jose, California where she teaches,writes, and is hard at work playing in dirt.

book coverCruzar El Limite/Border Town #1: Crossing the Line

In Dos Rios, Texas, life is all about borders—and what happens when you cross the line.

Nothing is simple in a border town like Dos Rios, in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Even for high school students Fabiola Garza and her younger sister Alexis, whose parents run a local Tex-Mex restaurant, Dos Rios is full of borders—where you should go, who your friends should be, which boy you should date.

Dos Rios is also full of opportunities, but it's a town divided, between the haves and the have-nots, the Whites and the Mexicans-Americans, the Texans and the Mexicans, the legal and illegal. But through it all, the Garza sisters have each other. Water can be crossed, but blood is the ultimate borderline—no matter what.

Published by Scholastic Press

About the Interviewer


Photo Credit:
Saverio Truglia

Nora de Hoyos Comstock
President and CEO of Las Comadres para las Americas. She also is the national and international founder of the organization.

Dr. Comstock received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982 in Educational Administration with an emphasis on community college management. She received a B.A. in History with a specialty in Latin America in 1974.

Dr. Comstock was born in Raymondville, Texas and moved to Austin in 1968. She has a set of adult twins. She lives in Austin with her husband of 27 years.