Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Esperanza rising Pam Muñoz Ryan. - New York : Scholastic Inc., c2000. - 262 p. ; 22 cm.

2002 Pura Belpré Award for Writing

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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Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Agricultural laborers -- Juvenile fiction.

PZ7.R9553

Fic. R9893e 2000