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Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Pam Muñoz, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--California--Juvenile fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Immigrant families--Juvenile fiction.
- Immigrant families.
- Rich people--Juvenile fiction.
- Rich people.
- Strikes and lockouts--Juvenile fiction.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- California--Juvenile fiction.
- California.
- Mexican Americans--California--Fiction.
- Agricultural laborers--Fiction.
- California--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Curriculum resource.
- Juvenile books.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Of After Words guide: About the author
- Q & A with Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Make your own Jamaica flower punch
- Making Mama's yarn doll
- Those familiar sayings
- What story do you have to tell?
- Participant:
- Read by Trini Alvarado.
- Notes:
- Willa Literary Award for young adult book, 2001
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2001
- Américas Award, Honorable Mention, 2000
- Pura Belpré Award - Narrative, Winner, 2002
- ISBN:
- 9780439120418
- 0439120411
- 9780439576178
- 0439576172
- 9780439120425
- 043912042X
- 9780439771252
- 0439771250
- 9780439270038
- 0439270030
- 9780756910563
- 0756910560
- 9780613538077
- 0613538072
- OCLC:
- 43487323
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