Cajas de Carton: Relatos de las Vida Peregrina de un Nino Campesino (The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Child Migrant Farmer)

Jimenez, Francisco

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Houghton Mifflin

Annotation: Collections of 12 autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jimenez, who, at the age of four, illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.

Genre: [Foreign languages] [Realistic fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #43148

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Edition Date: 2000 Release Date: 09/30/02

Pages: 125 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-618-22616-8 Perma-Bound: 0-605-27461-4

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-618-22616-0 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-27461-7

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 18 cm.

Subject Heading:
Mexican Americans. Fiction.
Mexican American families. Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers. Fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Mexican American families. Novela. slem.
Mexican Americans. Novela. slem.
Migrant agricultural laborers. Novela. slem.
Materiales lectura en idioma espanol. slem.
California. Social life and customs. Fiction.
California. Social life and customs. Novela. slem.

Language: Spanish

Reviews:

Horn Book (Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 2003)

JimÃÂ©nez translates his two award-winning memoirs, The Circuit and Breaking Through, into Spanish. These carefully and lovingly translated editions offer Spanish-speaking children the opportunity to enjoy these powerful stories. [Review covers these titles: Cajas de cartÃÂ³n and Senderos fronterizos.]

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Horn Book (Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 2003)

Word Count: 28,574

Reading Level: 5.3

Interest Level: 5-9

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 4.0 / quiz: 2485SP / grade: Middle Grades

Guided Reading Level: Z

Fountas & Pinnell: Z

El intenso relato del viaje de una familia a través de los campos de California viviendo una vida en constante movimiento, de campos de fresa a campos de algodón, y de campamentos a cobertizos de un ambiente.

Narrada por un joven que anhela estudiar y obtener el derecho de elegir un hogar, esta es una historia de supervivencia, fe y esperanza. Un viaje que abrirá el corazón y la mente de los lectores.

Francisco Jiménez emigró de Tlaquepaque, México, a California, donde por muchos años trabajó junto con su familia en los campos. Obtuvo una maestría y un doctorado en la Universidad de Columbia, siendo actualmente jefe del Departamento de Lenguajes Modernos y Literatura de la Universidad de Santa Clara, el escenario principal de Mas allá de mí. Ha recibido premios por sus obras Cajas de cartón, Senderos fronterizos, La mariposa y Más allá de mí. Reside con su familia en Santa Clara, California.

"'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 picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce, from tent cities to one-room shacks. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one place home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.

Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master’s degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and Reaching Out. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.

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