The Circuit: A Graphic Memoir
(Hardback)
Available Formats
Publishing Details
The Circuit: A Graphic Memoir
By (Author) Francisco Jimnez
Illustrated by Celia Jacobs
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
3rd July 2024
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Boys and men
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Activism / activists
Childrens / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees
741.5
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Description
Author Bio
Francisco Jimnez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master's degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now the chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of his newest novel, Reaching Out. He is the Pura Belpre Honor winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, and La Mariposa. He is also the recipient of the John Steinbeck Award. He lives with his family in Santa Clara, California.
