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Toma s Rivera

by Jane Medina · 2004

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As a young Mexican American boy in a migrant worker family in Texas, future author Tomás Rivera enjoys going to the library and listening to his grandfather's stories.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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writerswritersMore like thisLess of thischildhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
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childrens

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