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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
These stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots-- and back again-- over a number of years.
Colección de relatos autobiográficos de un niño inmigrante mexicano, quien junto con su familia trabaja arduamente en los campos de California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
89) Breaking through
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
90) Cesar Chavez
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.
91) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
92) Cesar Chavez
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.
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