The Circuit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780395979020)

"'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: Francisco Jiménez
ISBN-10: 0395979021
ISBN-13: 9780395979020
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 10/25/1999
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 2485 / Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/16/2000 pg. 26
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 95 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 95 - Superior,Well Above Average