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Esperanza rising  Cover Image Book Book

Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan.

Ryan, Pam Muñoz (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780439120418
  • Physical Description: 262 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Contents of After Words guide: About the author -- Q & A with Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Make your own Jamaica flower punch -- Making Mama's yarn doll -- Those familiar sayings -- What story do you have to tell?
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 6.0.
Awards Note:
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2002.
Willa Literary Award for young adult book, 2001.
Subject: Mexican Americans > California > Juvenile fiction.
California > Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans > California > Fiction.
Agricultural laborers > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Mexican Americans.
California.
Genre: Fiction.
Juvenile works.

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Summary: 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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