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Cajas de Carton: Relatos de la Vida Peregrina de un Nino Campesino / The Circuit

by Francisco Jimenez

ISBN13: 9780618226160
ISBN10: 0618226168
Condition: Standard
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Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life.

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Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his masters degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and his newest novel, Reaching Out. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.

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: laladeda84, October 30, 2007 (view all comments by laladeda84)
Fascinating book, easy to follow, easy vocab for Spanish students. I can't put it down.
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I am indifferent. The book was hard to follow.
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ISBN:: 9780618226160
Subtitle:: Relatos de la Vida Peregrina de un Nino Campesino = The Circuit
Author:: Jimenez, Francisco
Author:: E
Author:: nez
Author:: Jim
Author:: Francisco Jim
Author:: nez, Francisco
Publisher:: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Location:: Boston
Subject:: General
Subject:: Boys / Men
Subject:: Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
Subject:: Mexican americans
Subject:: Migrant agricultural laborers
Subject:: Mexican American families
Edition Description:: Trade Paper
Publication Date:: September 2002
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: from 5
Language:: Spanish
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 7.04x4.95x.43 in. .31 lbs.
Age Level:: 13-17

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