TY - BOOK AU - Paulsen,Gary TI - The crossing SN - 0833545817 U1 - F PY - 2002/// CY - Madison, Wi. PB - Volunteer Braillists and Tapists, KW - Orphans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Friendship KW - Juvenile Fiction KW - Border crossing KW - Emotional problems KW - Mexico KW - Mexican-American border region N1 - Contracted braille; Transcribed from: New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell, c1987 N2 - Fourteen-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 -