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Esperanza Rising

by Pam Munoz Ryan

When Esperanza’s world of beauty and wealth turns upside, she must face a giant she has never known before: poverty.   Leaving her beautiful home in Mexico, she and her mother travel to California to lead the life of farm workers.  Will she survive the hardships and discrimination of poverty or will the giant destroy her?

Video Interview with the Author
Farm History, An Economic Lesson 
Tomas Rivera and the Farm Workers
Mexico

The Runaway Tortilla

Biography Maker


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