Esperanza rising /

Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan. - Carmel, Calif. : Hampton-Brown, c2000. - 262 p. ; 22 cm. - The exchange . - Exchange (Hampton-Brown) .

Includes introductions, questions, and on-page glossaries.

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.

Pura Belpré Author Award, 2002.

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Mexican Americans--California--Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans--California--Fiction.
Agricultural laborers--Fiction.


California--Fiction.

PZ7.R9553 / Es 2000b