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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Jesse - Gary Soto

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Jesse, artistic and religious, is forced to field work to pay for food while he attends a junior college after leaving high school. He remembers that once "I worked on my knees nine hours - one hundred seventy-eight trays of grapes-so I could buy my mom an umbrella." These Mexican-American brothers hope junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.

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