266 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 1, 2002 by Scholastic.
4 stars
(12 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Fiction.
- Agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
- Mexicano-americanos -- California -- Ficción juvenil.
- Trabajadores agrícolas -- Ficción juvenil.
- California -- Fiction.
- California -- Ficción juvenil.