TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,Pam Munoz TI - Esperanza Rising SN - 0-439-12042-x PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Mexican Americans--California--Fiction KW - Agricultural laborers--Fiction KW - California--Fiction N1 - Pura Belpre Award; Accelerated Reader; 5.3; 6.0 N2 - 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 ER -