The Crossing By Gary Paulsen

The Crossing by Gary Paulsen is a book about a young boy trying to cross the Mexico border into America. The question that is asked now is why is this an important novel for American students to read? This is an extremely important book for American students to read for many reasons such as, it gives us a way to experience the way some people are who are not as fortunate as us live. Many kids around the world are exposed to such graphic and horrific things everyday and don’t realise what they go through. We here in America have certain things that other kids could only dream of having and we take those things for granted. Kids in many countries barely get enough to eat a day if even that, while we are over here are complaining that we don’t