Feature Writing. Don Bartletti won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for the photographs he took for the Los Angeles Times series, which are also featured in the book. Enrique's Journey has won both the 2006 Christopher Award and the 2006 California Book Award in Recognition of Literary Excellence, Silver Medal. It has been adopted by over 100 universities as their freshman or common read. In 2015, it was one of the most popular choices for a common read, according to a survey by Inside Higher Ed. In 2014, Enrique's Journey was listed as number one on a list of the top ten best non-fiction books on The Latino Author. Enrique's Journey has been chosen as a common or freshman read by over 200 middle schools, high schools, and universities nationwide. Facing History & Ourselves developed a six-week unit teaching guide to accompany the young adult version of the book. Sonia Nazario Sonia Nazario has since become an advocate for unaccompanied minors who face immigration court alone. In 2019, a record number of unaccompanied minors were detained at the southern border of the U.S. Nazario has been on the board of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) since its inception. The nonprofit was started by Angelina Jolie and the Microsoft Corporation in 2008. On July 17, 2014, she testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the violence children were fleeing in Central America, in places like Enrique's former neighborhood on Honduras. Nazario has since been a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times. Her articles focus on immigration, asylum, Central America and Mexico, often revisiting Enrique's neighborhood in Honduras for further reporting. See also Freighthopping Unaccompanied minor References Notes Sources https://web.archive.org/web/20120308135416/http://www.enriquesjourney.com/about.html External links Random House homepage for Enrique's Journey Current affairs books