Francisco Jiménez
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez
“’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…
Francisco Jiménez
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education. A sequel to the award-winning The Circuit.
