“‘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
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 10/25/1999
Series: Circuit #1
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780395979020
Language: English
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