Breaking Through Hardback - 2001
by Jiménez, Francisco
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Details
- Title Breaking Through
- Author Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
- Publication date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 42099
- ISBN 9780618011735 / 0618011730
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.26 x 5.48 x 0.81 in (18.44 x 13.92 x 2.06 cm)
- Age range 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 750
- Category Young Adult Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects California, Mexican Americans
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001016941
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Bookseller catalogues American History; California History; Children's Non-Fiction
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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.
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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