TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,Pam Muñoz TI - Esperanza rising SN - 0439120411 (alk. paper) AV - PZ7.R9553 Es 2000 U1 - [Fic] 21 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Mexican Americans KW - California KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Fiction KW - Agricultural laborers N1 - R ; 750 ; Lexile ; R ; Raz-Plus N2 - 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 ER -