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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Historical fiction Curriculum resource Juvenile books novels Fiction Juvenile works Novels Romans Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pam Muñoz Ryan |
ISBN: | 9780439120418 0439120411 9780439576178 0439576172 9780439120425 043912042X 9780439771252 0439771250 9780439270038 0439270030 9780756910563 0756910560 9780613538077 0613538072 9780545532341 0545532345 043971334X 9780439713344 |
OCLC Number: | 43487323 |
Performer(s): | Read by Trini Alvarado. |
Awards: | Pura BelpreÌ Author Award, 2002 Willa Literary Award for young adult book, 2001 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2001 AmeÌricas Award Honorable Mention, 2000 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2001 |
Target Audience: | Ages 8-12.; 750L |
Description: | 262 pages ; 22 cm |
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? |
Responsibility: | Pam Muñoz Ryan. |
Abstract:
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee 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.
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