num_pages: 125
description: Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given. Simultaneous.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Cajas de cartón
titlecomplete: Cajas de cartón
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Family, Short Stories, Spanish Literature, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 6733
series: Francisco
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: John and Patricia Beatty Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Américas Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt