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Breaking Through

by Francisco Jiménez

Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 750L · 208 pages · 2002

Why we'd hand it over

The most unflinching and unsentimental migrant-family memoir for middle grade; kids see dignity and agency alongside real hunger and discrimination.

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