Brighter Than the Sun (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316704472)

A timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn't have to do it alone from the award-winning author of Indivisible.

Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to school in the United States. Though the commute is exhausting, this is the best way to achieve her dream: becoming the first person in her family to go to college.

When her family's restaurant starts struggling, Sol must find a part-time job in San Diego to help her dad put food on the table and pay the bills. But her complicated school and work schedules on the US side of the border mean moving in with her best friend and leaving her family behind.

With her life divided by an international border, Sol must come to terms with the loneliness she hides, the pressure she feels to succeed for her family, and the fact that the future she once dreamt of is starting to seem unattainable. Mostly, she'll have to grapple with a secret she's kept even from herself: that maybe she's relieved to have escaped her difficult home life, and a part of her may never want to return.


Author: Daniel Aleman
ISBN-10: 0316704474
ISBN-13: 9780316704472
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023
School Library Journal 03/01/2023 pg. 89
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2023
Booklist 02/17/2023
BookPage 04/01/2023