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English
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"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
Español
Description
"I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can't understand...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
Cuando él viaja con su familia de trabajadores migratorios del campo, Diego se fía de su radio para proporcionarlo con compañerismo y ayuda lo conecta a todos los lugares diferentes en que el vive.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Tells the life story of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa from impoverished childhood in a tiny village in Mexico to illegal immigrant, American citizen, student at the University of California, on to Harvard Medical School, and becoming an internationally renowned neurosurgeon.
10) Working cotton
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
12) Return to sender
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
20) Grounds for dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the California farmworker movement
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans--U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented--confronted...
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