num_pages: 208
description: In this Pura Belpré Honor–winning memoir, sequel to best-selling The Circuit, Francisco Jimenez tells his timely story about immigrant prejudice, keeping hope alive when there is none and his family’s journey to achieving their American dream.At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona.In the months and years that follow during the late 1950s-early 1960s, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice. How they sustain their hope, their good-heartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this moving, Pura Belpré Honor–winning sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth.
language: English
title: Breaking Through
titlecomplete: Breaking Through
genres: Biography, Autobiography, Teen, School, Spanish Literature, Childrens, Nonfiction, Middle Grade, Memoir, Cultural
ratings_count: 3140
series: Francisco
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Américas Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pura Belpré Award
category: Narrative
publisher: Clarion Books