A review by juliebcooper
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez

5.0

Read this as one of two books on migrant child farm labor for our upcoming bookclub. I highly recommend this to adults who are curious as well as to parents with kids (it's written in a young persons voice) who may not know that there are children who still work the fields in the US and are the reason we have fresh veggies and fruit at meal time. This reflects a personal history that took place decades earlier, and yet the story is still the same to this day for many migrant kids. The book we are reading as a companion to this and which I start next, was written by teens from WA state and recently published. It's called "DreamFields: A Peek into the World of Migrant Youth". A good friend of mine was the editor and works with the kids whose stories appear in the book.
http://dreamfieldsbook.wordpress.com/