“‘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.
- ISBN: 9780395979020
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Published: 1999, Houghton Mifflin
- Themes: border crossing, emigrants-immigrants, Hope, illegal immigrant, Journey, Survival
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latinx in US, Mexico, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 128