TY - BOOK AU - Paulsen, Gary TI - The crossing / SN - 9780439786614 AV - PZ7.P2843 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Immigration KW - Survival KW - Homelessness KW - Poverty KW - Adventure N2 - Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border ER -