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Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. The Circuit Series, Book 1

By Francisco Jimenez

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference;Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;HMH Books for Young Readers
Year
2011
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
382 kB (391090 bytes)
Series
The Circuit
Pages
79\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:29:14

Description

"'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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