Esperanza rising
(2000)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/RYAN,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Fiction Y/FICTION/RYAN,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Scholastic Press, 2000
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

262 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0439120411 (alk. paper), 9780439120425, 9781435280625 (Paw Prints)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2002 Pura Belpre Award for Narrative

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

750

750L

Winner of the 2001 Jane Addams Children's Bookd Award for older children