The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child"'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 tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds. |
Contents
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Soledad | 8 |
Inside Out | 12 |
Miracle in Tent City | 22 |
El Angel de Oro | 36 |
Christmas Gift | 42 |
Death Forgiven | 47 |
Cotton Sack | 51 |
Learning the Game | 70 |
To Have and to Hold | 80 |
Moving Still | 94 |
A Note from the Author | 112 |
Back Flap | 117 |
Back Cover | 118 |
Spine | 119 |
The Circuit | 61 |
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