Breaking+Through

The author of __Breaking Through__ is Franscico Jimenez. He immigrated with his family in the 1940's from Mexico to California, where he worked in fields as a laborer to help raise money for his family. Today, he is a college proffesor at Santa Clara University. He has served on various boards and committees including the California Council for the Humanities. Francisco has a long past in writing adult novels, but in writing his first young adult novel (__The Circuit__), he realized his passion for writing books for children. He followed up on the series with serveral other books and the series won multiple prestigous writing awards- including the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult literature.Francisco wrote the book __Breaking Through__ to illustrate how underprivelaged his chilhood was. However, this book proves that with hard work and determination, even illegal immigrants can come to be scholars. The publishing date seems to be 2001 by Houghton Mifflin- our research proved inconclusive on whether the book had been previously published as a book or magazine article. Customer reviews on Amazon seem to put the book very high on the rating system- almost everyone who reviewed it gave it five stars, showing that the general public accepted this book as a fantastic literary work. Proffessional reviews seem to say the same thing: Jimenez's simple, effective, and harsh writing style seems to be very well-received among adults. Although we could not find any specific information on controversey over the book, we think that if there were any, it would be on the subject of illegal immigrants. Perhaps some who read this book think that illegal immigrants should not be taken away from their families, while other believe it is just punishment. Also, the issue of having paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants- a major issue in politics today.

Unknown Author, "Dr. Fransico Jimenez." 29 Oct 2008 

Unknown Author, "Francisco Jimenez." 30 Oct 2008 .