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Breaking Through
Author: Francisco Jiménez
ISBN: 0618342486 / Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / 2002-10-01
List Price: $6.95
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimnez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican borde ... Read more
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A Summer Life
Author: Gary Soto
ISBN: 0440210240 / Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf / 1991-08-01
List Price: $6.50
Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew ... Read more
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Going Solo
Author: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 0141303107 / Paperback
Publisher: Puffin / 1999-01-01
List Price: $6.99
The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting— and frighteningly near-death— experiences incl ... Read more
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Diary of an Anorexic Girl
Author: Morgan Menzie
ISBN: 0849944058 / Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson / 2003-04-16
List Price: $12.99
Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs an ... Read more
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