"'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 call one palce home, this is a story of
survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers'
hearts and minds.