Lupita Manana with Connections Author:Patricia Beatty To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra". — Connections include: A Note from Patricia Beatty, essay by Patricia Beatty; A Childhood in Jalcocotan, memoir from Barrio Boy, by Ernesto G... more »alarza; Oral History Project: Ellis Island, essay with Oral Histories; My Hands Are Like a History Book, oral history by Charlie H. Wingfield, Jr.; Field Work, autobiographical account by Rose Del Castillo Guilbault; and West Side, poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. « less