
Curriculum details
Course: World History 4: The Modern Age
Level four:
Advanced children’s literature
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Fifth grade
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The daughter of a prosperous farmer in Mexico must forge a new life as an immigrant farm worker in California in the 1930s. The book is based on the author's family history, and touches on class differences in Mexican society, racism, workers' rights and conditions faced by migrant workers during the Depression.