Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan. - New York : Scholastic Inc., 20007, c2000. - 262 p. ; 20 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780439120425 (pbk.)

LCCN: 00024186

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mexican Americans--California--Fiction.
Agricultural laborers.--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--Fiction.