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Book

Esperanza rising

Call Number

  • J RYAN (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Scholastic Press, c2000.

Physical Description

262 p. ; 22 cm.

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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