"'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 palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.
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Release date
October 25, 1999 -
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- ISBN: 9780547377209
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- ISBN: 9780547377209
- File size: 394 KB
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- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.3
- Lexile® Measure: 880
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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