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The Circuit : Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child / by Francisco Jimenez

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic ; 1997 . Edition: First Scholastic printing, September 2000Description: 134 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0439188962
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3560.I55
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Summary: Biography & Autobiography. Young Adult Nonfiction. HTML: "'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California � to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds. .
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Biography & Autobiography. Young Adult Nonfiction. HTML:
"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California � to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.

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