The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
by Jimenez, FranciscoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-10-25
Publisher(s): Houghton Miff
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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.
Author Biography
Francisco Jimenez is the Sanfilippo Professor of Modern Languages at Santa Clara University.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Under the Wire | p. 1 |
| Soledad | p. 8 |
| Inside Out | p. 12 |
| Miracle in Tent City | p. 22 |
| El Angel de Oro | p. 36 |
| Christmas Gift | p. 42 |
| Death Forgiven | p. 47 |
| Cotton Sack | p. 51 |
| The Circuit | p. 61 |
| Learning the Game | p. 70 |
| To Have and to Hold | p. 80 |
| Moving Still | p. 94 |
| A Note from the Author | p. 112 |
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