Esperanza Rising
By Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Reading level
Level four:
Advanced children’s literature
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Curriculum details
- Historical Fiction - Modern World
- Core curriculum
- Second grade to eighth grade
- Dec 9, 2024 - Jan 3, 2025
About
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.