Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Contributor(s): Jiménez, Francisco (Author)

ISBN: 9780826317971

Publisher: Unm Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$16.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$29.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$28.70 (100+ copies: $27.95)

List/retail price:

$16.95

Pub Date: October 1, 1997

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 97004844

Lexile Code: 0880

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 09 to 11

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 7.00" L x 4.80" W ( 0.30 lbs) 146 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000002485 ( Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child)

Reading level: 5.30

Interest level: MG

Point value: 4.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A collection of 12 short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farm workers.

Brief description: Francisco Jiménez is the Fay Boyle Professor of Modern Languages at Santa Clara University.

Review Quotes: "Not since Tomás Rivera's . . . and the earth did not part has a book expressed so well the experiences of the migrant campesinos as Francisco Jiménez has done in The Circuit. Its contents are representative of the best in the field of the Chicano short story."--Luis Leal

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