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Item Nr: B 122941 Title: Breaking Through
Grade Lvl: ST Author: Jimenez, Francisco
Length: 193 Prod/Pub: Houghton Mifflin
Copyright: 2001 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow during the late 1950s-early 1960s, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice. How they sustain their hope, their good-heartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth. IL 9-12. AR 5.3. RC 5.5. Lexile 750. GR Z.

  Subjects:
  1372 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  1416 - ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL/LEP/ELL)
  488 - FAMILY
  1264 - HISPANICS
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1127 - IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION--U.S.
  1677 - LEXILE 700-799
  1968 - MEMOIR
  743 - MIGRANT LABOR
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES