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Item Nr: B 122939 Title: Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Grade Lvl: ST Author: Jimenez, Francisco
Length: 191 Prod/Pub: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright: 2015 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  In this fourth book in his memoir series, Francisco Jimenez leaves everything behind in California—a loving family, a devoted girlfriend, and the culture that shaped him—to attend Columbia University in New York City. Francisco Jimenez’s work tells details about the warmth and resiliency of family and the quest for identity against seemingly impossible odds.

  Subjects:
  1372 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  331 - COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
  1416 - ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL/LEP/ELL)
  1264 - HISPANICS
  1127 - IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION--U.S.
  1680 - LEXILE 1000-1099
  743 - MIGRANT LABOR
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES