Esperanza rising
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780439120418
Category
Historical (Fiction)
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Subject
Pura Belpre Award
Tags
ALA Notable Childrens Book, Jane Addams Children Book Awards, Pura Belpre Award, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, depressions, Mexican Immigrants, Mexican American families, Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers, Mexican American teenage girls, Mexican Americans, mothers and daughters, Social Classes, Thirteen-year-old girls
Abstract
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Number of Copies
1
