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The Circuit Hardcover - 1999
by Francisco Jiménez
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- Hardcover
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"'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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- Title The Circuit
- Author Francisco Jiménez
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First printing (number line)
- Condition Used - Very Good+
- Pages 116
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
- Date 1999
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 601
- ISBN 9780395979020
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Geographic Orientation: California
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Summary
"'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.
First line
"La frontera" is a word I often heard when I was a child living in El Rancho Blanco, a small village nestled on barren, dry hills several miles north of Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Citations
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1999, Page 95
- New York Times, 01/16/2000, Page 26