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Esperanza Rising

By Pam Muñoz Ryan
Level four
Fifth grade
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Level four: Advanced children’s literature   ·   See more level four books
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.