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Breaking through / Francisco Jiménez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Francisco ; 2Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 195 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0618011730
  • 9780618011735
  • 0618342486
  • 9780618342488
  • 9780613607629
  • 0613607627
  • 1435286987
  • 9781435286986
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Forced out -- Home alone -- Stepping out -- Together again -- Back to the fields -- Saint Christopher medal -- Summer skirmishes -- Becoming a saint -- If the shoe fits -- A promotion -- A typing machine -- Making connections -- Broken heart -- Behind the wheel -- Turning a page -- Los Santitos -- Choosing sides -- Junior scandals -- Running for office -- A new life -- A test of faith -- A fumble -- A breakthrough -- Graduation Day -- Still moving.
Awards:
  • Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2002
  • Pura Belpré Author Honor, 2002.
Summary: 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, 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, 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 goodheartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this moving sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction JIMENEZ FRANCISC Available 33111010410856
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 tenacityis revealed in this moving, Pura Belpré Honor-winning sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth.

Sequel to: The circuit.

Part of libraries Ncss recommended collection, Grade 6-8.

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, 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, 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 goodheartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this moving sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth.

Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2002

Pura Belpré Author Honor, 2002.

Forced out -- Home alone -- Stepping out -- Together again -- Back to the fields -- Saint Christopher medal -- Summer skirmishes -- Becoming a saint -- If the shoe fits -- A promotion -- A typing machine -- Making connections -- Broken heart -- Behind the wheel -- Turning a page -- Los Santitos -- Choosing sides -- Junior scandals -- Running for office -- A new life -- A test of faith -- A fumble -- A breakthrough -- Graduation Day -- Still moving.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.3 7.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.5 12.0 28722.

54159. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 7.0.

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