"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it become clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are summering just below the surface inColleton County." - Back cover

The Dunne family, driven from their Oklahoma farm during the droughts of the 1930s, head for California where they are subjected to the abuses of the migrant farm worker system, and join with their fellow immigrants to force improvements.

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.

Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.

Intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots and back again over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family off four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures. --Back cover.

This series introduces young readers to important core content with simple activities to encourage students to Look, Think, Make a Guess, Ask Questions, and Create. This combination of reading and inquiring helps them to develop the skills needed to master content and learn and succeed in the 21st century. This book explains about working at a farm.

520 ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican...

"A high school senior, Jack Duncan dreams of playing college baseball and leaving the political turmoil of the agricultural town Delano behind. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died ten years earlier, he's suspected that his mother has been hiding the truth from him about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death. With his family's property on the verge of a tax sale, Jack drives an old combine into town to sell it. On the road, an...

""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."--

Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.