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2) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976, c1940
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
5) Scarecrow
Author
Series
Dr. Jo Banks mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Blaming herself for a patient's death and fleeing her hospital job, Dr. Jo Banks accepts a position as a visiting doctor to a group of small hotels and becomes unwittingly involved in the murders of a group of itinerant farm workers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Describes the efforts in the 1960s of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers.
7) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
See how Cesar Chavez helped improve working conditions and payment for farmworkers in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Something special happened when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez met. Together, they fought for the rights of countless farmworkers. Side by side, inspiring hope, they changed history.
Algo especial sucedió cuando Dolores Huerta y César Chávez se conocieron. Ellos lucharon juntos por los derechos de los campesinos. Lado a lado cultivaron esperanza, cambiando el curso de la historia.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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."--
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Honor for Latino Literature
Children's Special Topics: Cesar Chavez Day
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Cesar Chavez Day
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences--of the poet...
Author
Series
Francisco volume 1
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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 of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures. --
Publisher
Wiley Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"This CliffsNotes study guide on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work." -- Amazon.
20) Dolores Huerta
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Biography of Dolores Huerta, who, along with Cesar Chavez, established a union to protect the rights of farm workers.
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