Esperanza Rising
About this book
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.
Subjects
- agricultural laborers
- california, fiction
- children - fiction & literature
- children's fiction
- children's stories, american
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- fiction - people
- historical fiction
- history
- homeless persons, fiction
- immigrant families
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile fiction - historical - united states - 20th century
- juvenile fiction - people & places - united states - hispanic & latino
- juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino
- juvenile fiction - social themes - homelessness & poverty
- juvenile works
- mexican americans
- mexican americans, fiction
- mexicano-americanos
- mexicans
- mothers and daughters
- multicultural literature
- places & cultures
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- rich people
- social conditions
- strikes and lockouts
- trabajadores agrícolas