| Description |
1 online resource (x, 116 pages) |
| Contents |
Under the wire -- Soledad -- Inside out -- Miracle in Tent City -- El Angel de Oro -- Christmas gift -- Death forgiven -- Cotton sack -- The circuit -- Learning the game -- To have and to hold -- Moving still -- A note from the author. |
| 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 place home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 4 2485 |
| Note |
Originally published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1997. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Mexican Americans -- California -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction.
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mexican American families -- California -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mexican American families -- Fiction.
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Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Autobiographical fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jiménez, Francisco, 1943- Circuit Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999, c1997 0395979021 (NjBwBT)bl 99010733 (OCoLC)42706849 |
| ISBN |
9780547377209 |
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0547377207 |
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