- Agricultural laborers, fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
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.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Pam Muñoz Ryan
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Scholastic Corporation, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Scholastic
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780613822503
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- Agricultural laborers
- fiction
- Juvenile works
- Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty
- Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile fiction
- Mexican Americans
- Ficción juvenil
- Trabajadores agrícolas
- Mexicano-americanos
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
“Nuestra tierra esta viva, Esperanza -dijo Papa, mientras la llevaba de la pequena mano por las suaves colinas del vinedo.”
Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, ***Echo***, a 2016 Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books for young people—picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. She the author recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, the Willa Cather Award, the Pura Belpré medal, the PEN USA award, and many others. Her novels include ***Esperanza Rising***, ***Riding Freedom***, ***Becoming Naomi León***, ***Paint the Wind***, ***The Dreamer***, and ***Echo***. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, holds a bachelor's and master's degree from San Diego
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