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...poems and drawings of the children about their work reveal the way they accept farm labor as part of their daily life from early childhood. In the summer they work all day in the fields: being children, they find the job fun. One sixth grader from San Antonio writes...
...scream for help: "Dad please stop, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please stop! "His father just yelled at him saying. "Shut up boy, you'll pay for what you did!" Finally the man went inside leaving behind a boy crying in pain and fear," writes the seventh grader. Zavala writes without sentimentality but with feeling: the strength in her writing is characteristic of the book...
Lennart Bergelin, his mentor and masseur since Bjorn was a ninth-grader, never put a clock on the golden career but always knew precisely when it would end. "The day that Bjorn says he is going to take a shortcut and practice only two hours instead of four," said Bergelin some years ago, "then I will know it is finished." Borg's athletic skill has not run down; his ability to concentrate...
Cornelia says she can add and subtract and read. So can a second-grader...
...Calvert hasn't always been so successful in the pool. In fact, as a first-grader in New Mexico, the Harvard team captain flunked beginners' swimming...