Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Nonfiction · age 14+ · grade 9+ · 1040L · 320 pages · 2016
Why we'd hand it over
A searing, intellectually rigorous memoir that demands teen readers grapple with immigration policy, homelessness, and meritocracy—not feel-good inspiration porn, but honest testimony about structural inequality and individual agency.