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Francisco Jimenez's The Circuit
The story The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez is a story about a boy named Panchito and his family. In the story, the family faces many challenges for example they have trouble finding work, they don’t have a lot of money, and for the last example they can’t go to school because of work. In this open ended you will find out how this family deals with their problems, individually and together.
The first problem the reader was introduced to was housing, the family moves for work and can’t buy a new house every time they move do to money problems. The family works together and individually on this problem, they work together buy not complaining about the home I found this out from pages 2-3. On pages 2-3 I also learn that they worked individually

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