01860cam a2200433 i 4500 692541933 TxAuBib 20230313120000.0 140501t20012000||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780439120425 043912042X 9780439120425 TxAuBib rda Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan. New York : Scholastic, [2001] ©2000. 262 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contents of After Words guide: About the author -- Q&A with Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Make your own Jamaica flower punch -- Making Mama's yarn doll -- Those familiar sayings -- What story do you have to tell? 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. Lexile 750. 750 Lexile. Accelerated reader MG BL 5.3 PT 6.0 QN - 44286. Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.5 11 Quiz: 21997 Guided reading level: V. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 6.0 44286. 20230313. Awarded the Pura Belpre Medal, 2002. Mexican Americans California Juvenile fiction. Agricultural laborers Juvenile fiction. Agricultural laborers Fiction. Belpre Medal. Young adult fiction. Mexican Americans California Fiction. California Juvenile fiction. California Fiction.