Authors:Francisco Kerdel, Francisco Jimenez-Acosta,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: facts, dermatology
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0071391436
ISBN-13: 9780071391436

This useful quick-reference presents all of the key concepts physicians and residents need to know for board certification, re-certification, and general review. Provides a quick synopsis of the most important skin conditions for non-dermatologists. Detailed table of contents and a consistent bulleted format allows instant information retrieval. Coverage includes epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment.

Author: Francisco Jimenez
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Childre
Keywords: circuit
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395979021
ISBN-13: 9780395979020

"’La frontera’...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family’s journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to

Author: Francisco Jimenez
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: breaking
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0618342486
ISBN-13: 9780618342488

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, 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, 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 goodheartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this moving sequ

Author: Francisco Jimenez
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: spanish, circuit, carton, cajas
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-09-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0618226168
ISBN-13: 9780618226160

Maturity means breaking through the cocoon into freedom for Panchito, whose adolescence is described in this sequel to The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Houghton, 2001). The simplicity of life and the unending work for the whole family continues here, but is mitigated by Panchito’s increased awareness and gradual loss of innocence as he learns to make his life a success. His father’s bitterness, pain, and need for unquestioning obedience is matched by his mother’s ability to coax agreement out of her son. The clash of cultures between teen insolence in th

Author: Francisco Jimenez
Publisher: University of New Mexico Pre
Keywords: child, migrant, life, stories, circuit
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826317979
ISBN-13: 9780826317971

After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jim�nez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947. "The Circuit," the story of young Panchito and his trumpet, is one of the most widely anthologized stories in Chicano literature. At long last, Jim�nez offers more about the wise, sensitive little boy who has gr

Author: Francisco Jimenez
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: reaching
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-09-07
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0547250304
ISBN-13: 9780547250304

From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico. This is the story of how Francisco coped with poverty, with his guilt over leaving his family financially strapped, with his self-doubt about succeeding academically, and with sep

Authors:Francisco Jimenez, Francisco Jiménez,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: mariposa
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2000-09-26
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0618073175
ISBN-13: 9780618073177

In his first year of school, Francisco understands little of what his teacher says. But he is drawn to the silent, slow-moving caterpillar in the jar next to his desk. He knows caterpillars turn into butterflies, but just how do they do it? To find out, he studies the words in a butterfly book so many times that he can close his eyes and see the black letters, but he still can’t understand their meaning. Illustrated with paintings as deep and rich as the wings of a butterfly, this honest, unsentimental account of a schoolchild’s struggle to learn language reveals that our imaginati