Pub Date: September 30, 2002
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 9704844
Lexile Code: 0880
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 6.90" L x 4.90" W ( 0.25 lbs) 144 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Boys and Men | Social Themes | Emigration Immigration and Refugees | Diversity and Multicultural | Hispanic and Latino | General
Series: Cajas de Carton
Description: 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.
Brief description: Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master's degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now the chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of his newest novel, Reaching Out. He is the Pura Belpre Honor winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, and La Mariposa. He is also the recipient of the John Steinbeck Award. He lives with his family in Santa Clara, California.