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The book "The Circuit", is a really good book about a migrant child who comes to the USA illegally, and is now facing the troubles as an immigrant.This is a book with many short stories.I personally think that this book is really sad and the ending is...from my opinion really strong and powerful.This book is mostly kind of "challenging ...
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Oct 25, 1999 · Dr. Jiménez’s autobiographical books The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Cajas de cartón, Spanish edition), Breaking Through (Senderos fronterizos, Spanish edition), Reaching Out (Más allá de mí, Spanish edition), La Mariposa, and The Christmas Gift/El regalo de Navidad have won several national literary awards ...
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- Francisco Jiménez
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36776380. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child is an autobiographical novel by Francisco Jiménez based in part on his journey from Mexico to the United States of America. [1] [2] The book, narrated by the child's point of view, follows the life of young Francisco and his family as they move from one location to another to ...
- Francisco Jiménez
- 1997
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In 1997, he published The Circuit, which won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and the California Library Association’s 10th Annual John and Patricia Beatty Award. Jiménez has written several other books, including an award-winning picture book for young children called La Mariposa.
Oct 25, 1999 · The Circuit. : Francisco Jiménez. HarperCollins, Oct 25, 1999 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 128 pages. "'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."
Mar 26, 2024 · The Circuit Graphic Novel Paperback – March 26, 2024. Poignantly told from a young boy’s perspective, the popular and award-winning memoir centered on a Mexican family working California’s fields is now a powerful graphic novel that will appeal to readers of Illegal and They Called Us Enemy.
- Francisco Jiménez
Oct 1, 1997 · This book challenges us as readers, whether eleven or fifty. . . In The Circuit, Jimenez has taken us inside a way of life, in all its sweetness and all its sorrow. It is a valuable book for young people, both for its artistic value and for the issues it illuminates. -- Riverbank Review. Julie Landsman
