Francisco Jiménez

Author Facts

• Francisco is married and has three children, all of whom are college• educated.

• He credits John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath for teaching him the power of language.

• He once took a job as a janitor so he could read in the offices after he had finished cleaning.

Bibliography

Other books written by Francisco Jiménez:
• Jiménez, Francisco. The Christmas Gift. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

• Jiménez, Francisco. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

• Jiménez, Francisco. La Mariposa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Other books about mentors:
• Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Aladdin, 2000.

• Spinelli, Jerry. Knots in my Yo• Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

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