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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Jiménez, Francisco

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0826317979
ISBN13: 9780826317971
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Oct 1 1997
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Awards: Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature, Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, Young Hoosier Book Award
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
A Booklist Editors' Choice
Américas Award Winner for Children's and Young Adult Literature

This bestselling collection of short stories about a migrant worker family remains as relevant and poignant today as it was in 1997.

After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.

So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.

The Circuit, the story of young Panchito and his trumpet, is one of the most widely anthologized stories in Chicano literature. At long last, Jiménez offers more about the wise, sensitive little boy who has grown into a role model for subsequent generations of immigrants.

These independent but intertwined stories follow the family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots--and back again--over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures.

A jewel of a book--Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

These stories are so realistic they choke the heart.--Rudolfo Anaya

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