Les Roses du Mexique

Description:

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.

subjects: Agricultural laborers,  fiction,  Juvenile works,  Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino,  Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty,  Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century,  Juvenile fiction,  Mexican Americans,  Ficción juvenil,  Trabajadores agrícolas,  Mexicano-americanos,  JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino,  Historical fiction,  Rich people,  Strikes and lockouts,  Multicultural literature,  Immigrant families,  Mothers and daughters,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Mexicans,  Social conditions,  History,  Children's stories, American,  Children's fiction,  Mexican americans, fiction,  California, fiction,  Homeless persons, fiction,  Children - fiction & literature,  Fiction - people,  Places & cultures

People: Mexican Americans

Places: California,  Mexico