"What would we learn from each other if we had no fear, if there were no boundaries, no lines in the sand? As a society, we would be hard-pressed to know because we often lack the courage to do what it takes to find out. A dynamic group of migrant youth in Mount Vernon, Washington, are willing to try. They want you to understand what it feels like to walk in their shoes -- shoes caked in mud from the fields, shoes scrubbed daily so they will last, shoes grown too tight, shoes carrying them from place to place. Their desire for your understanding is so strong that it overcomes fear, and they have decided to open their lives to you in a way that they have never done before. Prepare yourself for the soulful, powerful, and sometimes awkward writing of teenagers speaking from the heart" -- back cover.