Esperanza Rising

By Pam Muñoz Ryan

Subjects: Homeless persons, fiction, Ficción juvenil, fiction, Mexican Americans, Multicultural literature, Reading Level-Grade 12, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty, Children - fiction & literature, Reading Level-Grade 9, Places & cultures, Mexicano-americanos, Historical fiction, Children's stories, American, Reading Level-Grade 8, Rich people, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, California, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Immigrant families, Trabajadores agrícolas, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Fiction - people, Children's fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Reading Level-Grade 11, Juvenile works, Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century, Social conditions, Juvenile fiction, History, Reading Level-Grade 10, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino, Agricultural laborers, Mexicans, Mothers and daughters

Description: 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.