The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez (Good, 2000, Pbk, 134 pages, Scholastic)

Former classroom book in good condition: cover has wear as pictured; writing on inside front cover; inside very clean. ISBN 0439188962

"'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 place home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.