Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan
(Juvenile Fiction - J Ryan)

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. Suggested for ages 8–12.


Hispanic Experiences

  • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music


  • Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States


  • Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras


  • Lola Levine Is Not Mean


  • The Other Half of Happy


  • Abuela


  • Esperanza Rising


  • 90 Miles to Havana


  • Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match


  • The Dreamer


  • Lola Levine Is Not Mean


  • Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras


  • Dreamers


  • Yes! We Are Latinos


  • Tortilla Sun


  • Niño Wrestles the World


  • Esperanza Rising


  • Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote


  • The First Rule of Punk


  • Abuela


  • Yes! We Are Latinos


  • The Dreamer


  • What Can You Do with a Paleta?


  • Mango, Abuela, and Me


  • Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote


  • What Can You Do with a Paleta?


  • The Other Half of Happy


  • Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match


  • Alma and How She Got Her Name


  • Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States


  • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music


  • Tortilla Sun


  • 90 Miles to Havana


  • The First Rule of Punk


  • Mango, Abuela, and Me


  • Dreamers


  • Alma and How She Got Her Name


  • Niño Wrestles the World