The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez
by Sam Arnold-Boyd on Dec.15, 2011, under Battle of the Books 2011-2012, Biography or Autobigraphy, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Fiction, Student Reviews
Who would like this book? People who are interested in discovering how a boy who has had so much sadness and depression in his life can still create happiness out of it.
Why? The Circuit is about a boy whose family illegally immigrates to California from Mexico in hopes of finding good paying jobs and a better life. What they find is not what they expected. This story describes their life from the view point of the boy Panchito. Follow him in this heart breaking story as he struggles through poverty, and loss. Will his hard life finally pay off?
The details: 166 pp. 1997 Review by Zoe B.
