About this title: Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780618226160ISBN:0618226168
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780618226160ISBN:0618226168
Description: New. Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life. read more
"This book shows the hard work of an immigrant who comes to America for a better life. The author symbolizes the hard work of one with the harder work of the main character. The book contains many literary devices. This book makes you think about others in such a way that you would not understand the first time. I recommend this book for others who want to be informed about the hard work of immigrants."
"Its stories about an illegal immigrant named Francisco Jimenez. That moved from Guadalajara to California at such a young age. His dad had to work picking strawberries and cotton to thinning lettuce and topping carrots. I liked that in some stories I can some what relate to this stories. I only gave it 3 stars and not more because I did not like the way the he picked different stories instead of just writing about one."
"Gr 8 & Up- An audio book, Francisco Jimenez was born in Mexico, entered California illegally as a very young child, and spent his boyhood alternating between migrant farm work and the classroom. This collection of autobiographical short stories was written years later, when Jimenez had become an established professor at Santa Clara University (CA), but they give immediate access to the feelings of the growing boy. Adrian Vargas reads in a lightly accented English, offering a voice that is evidently that of the full grown man remembering, rather than that of the youth he remembers. Each story is simple, direct, and redolent with the smells of the earth, the sounds of the ever-changing home with its growing number of siblings, and the amazing experiences each new schoolroom offers. The frustrations range from those specific to poverty and migrancy, including the inability to follow up on promises made by a good teacher because the family moves on the day the offer of trumpet lessons has been proffered, through the universal experience of an older brother saddled with an ignorant younger sibling who insensitively feeds his prized penny collection into the grocery store's gumball machine. In the end, your heart sinks as he awaits excitedly for the teacher to come into the classroom. And when he she did, she was with the officers who had come to deport the boy from the country. You can feel the pain."
"In all the years I've spent in Arizona, Virginia and California, "migrant workers" or "day workers" have been an ever-present part of the landscape. I never felt any particular prejudice against them, but often thought "that really isn't the most effective way to get work, how do they do it?" This book really pulled back the veil on the lives of these families - the situation of being the child, the youth, the mother, and the father - and the struggle to survive while also trying to experience some of the good that they hoped for in the U.S. I came away with such a love for Francisco, and it was so uplifting to see how his life unfolded. He is a wonderfully noble man."
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