Esperanza Renace (Esperanza Rising)

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Annotation: 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.

Genre: [Foreign languages] [Historical fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #91086

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Edition Date: 2002 Release Date: 08/01/02

Pages: 266 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-439-39885-1 Perma-Bound: 0-605-04905-X

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-439-39885-5 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-04905-5

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Agricultural laborers. Fiction.
Mexican Americans. California. Fiction.
Mexican Americans. California. Juvenile fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Agricola peones. Novela. slem.
Mexican Americans. California. Novela. slem.
Materiales lectura en idioma espanol. slem.
California. Fiction.
California. Novela. slem.

Language: Spanish

Reviewing Agencies: - Find Other Reviewed Titles
National Council For Social Studies Notable Children's Trade

Word Count: 42,399

Reading Level: 5.3

Interest Level: 5-9

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 44286SP / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:4.5 / points:10.0 / quiz:Q48723

Lexile: 750L

A Mexican "Grapes of Wrath," based on a family story, from the award-winning author of Riding Freedom.

Esperanza Ortega tiene todos los tesoros que una chica pueda desear: hermosos vestidos, una linda casa llena de sirvientes en Mexico, y la promesa de que un dia llegara a presidir el Rancho como su mama. Pero una tragedia inesperada destruye ese sueno, obligando a Esperanza y a su madre a escapar a California donde tendran que trabajar en una finca junto a otros mexicanos. Alli tendra que olvidar su pasado y enfrentarse a las nuevas realidades de su vida: trabajo duro, aceptacion y dificultades economicas. Esperanza descubrira que la verdadera riqueza esta en la familia y la comunidad.

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