262 pages
English language
Published 2000 by Scholastic Press.
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
- Agricultural laborers -- Juvenile fiction
- California -- Juvenile fiction