While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library, which has a significant impact on the boy when he grows up to be Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Cross Group
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Iowa, Northern America, Texas, United States of America
Ethnicity: Mexican, Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American, White/European American/Caucasian
Cross Group Sub: Direct, Non-Central, Positive
Character Prominence: Joint Main