Cajas De Carton : Relatos De La Vida Peregrina De Un Nino Campesino / Cardboard Boxes : Stories From The Life Of A Child Migrant Farmer: Stories From The Life Of A Child Migrant Farmer

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.

Francisco Jimenez immigrated with his family to California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico. He worked in the fields of California as a child, and his autobiographical novel The Circuit tells the story of those younger years. Breaking Through finishes telling the story of his youth, ending with his departure to college.