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Esperanza Rising
By Pam Muñoz Ryan
Level four
Second grade
to eighth grade
Core curriculum
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Level four:
Advanced children’s literature
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Second grade
to eighth 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.