304 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2000 by Scholastic Inc..
Esperanza Rising
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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
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Juvenile fiction.
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Fiction.
- Agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
- California -- Fiction.