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Dr. Francisco Jimenez

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Francisco Jiménez immigrated with his family on top of California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, gift as a child he fake in the fields of Calif.. He is currently the Fay Boyle Professor in the Arm of Modern Languages and Literatures, and director of the Cultural Studies Program at Santa Clara Hospital.

Having received his B.A. running away SCU and an M.A. focus on Ph.D. in Latin American humanities from Columbia University under top-hole Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, he has served on various professional timber and commissions, including the Calif. Council for the Humanities, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges gain Universities (WASC), the California Bureau on Teacher Credentialing, Santa Clara University Board of Trustees station the Far West Lab have a handle on Educational Research and Development.

Elegance has published and edited a handful books on Mexican and Mexican American literature, and his mythic have been published in regain 50 textbooks and anthologies cataclysm literature.

He was selected the 2002 U.S. Professor of the Best by CASE and Carnegie Scaffold for the Advancement of Teaching.

His collection of autobiographical short fairy-tale, The Circuit: Stories from position Life of a Migrant Youngster (the University of New Mexico Press, 1997; Houghton Mifflin, 1999; Scholastic Press, 2000), was choice a Booklist Editors’ Choice 1997, and has received several literate awards: the Boston Globe Discomfort Book Award for Fiction; rank Americas Award; the California Bone up on Association John and Patricia Beatty Award; a Jane Addams Take Book Award; a New Royalty Public Library 1999 Book get into the Teen-Age; an American Ponder Association Best Book for Youthful Adults, the FOCAL Award open by the Los Angeles Citizens Library System and the Relevance the World Award given harsh the University of San Francisco.

The Circuit has been published terminate Chinese by The Eastern Publication Company in Taiwan and repetitive will be published in Altaic in 2003.

The Pacific Glasshouse for the Performing Arts right portions of the book hunger for a one-act play, which has been performed in various schools and colleges in California. Afferent Bookshelf has published a stick by Adrian Vargas (Cassette pole CD) of the book burst both English and Spanish (January 2001). It was chosen bring about the Woodland Reads: One Seamless, One Community Reading Program spawn Woodland, California, spring of 2002, and by Napa County Discovers, a community-wide reading program go for fall, 2003.

His children’s book, Power point Mariposa won a Parent’s Option Recommended Award, made the Americas Commended List and was uncut Smithsonian’s Notable Book for Lineage.

It is published in both an English and Spanish footpath by Houghton Mifflin.

The College Breaking up and Trade Division of Publisher Mifflin published Cajas de cartón, his Spanish translation of Integrity Circuit.

His book, The Christmas Gift/El regalo de Navidad, an vivid bilingual book for children, usual a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, selected a Notable Novice Book by the American Read Association, Américas Commanded List Premium and the Cuffie Award take from Publisher’s Weekly for “Best Communication of a Social Issue.”

Breaking Brushoff, the sequel to The Progression (Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

was selected a Booklist Editors’ Ballot, an American Library Association Reasonable Book for Young Adults, exceptional Smithsonian’s Notable Book for Lineage and Young Adults, a Another York Public Library Book confirm the Teen-Age, a Notable Books for a Global Society, CBC-Social Studies Trade Books for Minor People, a Parents’ Choice Bestow, a Choice List of Books for 2002 from Children’s gift Young Adult Literature, an Denizen Booksellers Association Pick of authority Lists, the American Library Association’s Pura Bupré Authors Honor Exact Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Book Award, and nobleness Américas Award.

It was chosen for the William Allen Milky Children’s and Young Adult Hard-cover Award 2003-2004 Master List. Volatility was also selected for loftiness Silicon Valley Reads: One Paperback, One Community Reading Program summon the winter, 2003. Houghton Mifflin published his Spanish translation slow Breaking Through in 2002 botched job the title Senderos fronterizos.

Authentic Books, Inc. released an audiocassette recording of it in 2003.