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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In this poignant bilingual picture book, a boy remembers his first present, "a little train crossing / the mountain of my pillow / over a valley on my bed." There's even a girl who looks like his sister waving happily from the window! Years later, after his parents have gone far away in search of work and a better future, the boy rides in a real train to join his family. This one is loaded with hundreds of children traveling alone, just like him....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Con una nueva perspectiva bíblica, el pastor y autor de bestsellers del New York Times, Max Lucado, desempaqueta el libro de la promesa e invitación de Esther: El alivio vendrá. ¿Serás parte de él? En [este libro] Max te ayudará a recuperar tu identidad eterna como ciudadano del cielo, a poner tu esperanza en el Dios de los grandes cambios, a cultivar el valor para tus tiempos difíciles y a descubrir tu papel en la historia de Dios.
With...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Para convertir una casita en mal estado en un hogar acogedor, todo lo que se necesita es una familia con un corazón muy grande, decidida a ayudar a los demás, y ... un poquito de esperanza. La casita ofrece un hogar a aquellos que no tienen adonde ir. Es un lugar sin miedo y sin peligro en un país nuevo, y Esperanza siempre es la primera en darles la bienvenida a todos."--
"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba,...
Author
Publisher
Contraluz
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Reflexiones sobre la ilusión, la supervivencia y el milagro de estar vivos Y, en la oscuridad, incluso los fragmentos de luz más minúsculos pueden brillar, llamar nuestra atención y tal vez hasta guiardnos a casa..."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucía watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papá's--return.
A...
Author
Series
Love and rockets volume 5
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A fifth volume of "Locas" stories follows Esperanza in her ex-punkette life as a schoolteacher.
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Jesús escucha, el libro de oración devocional de 365 días más nuevo de Sarah Young, la autora más vendida de Jesús te llama, te lleva en un viaje de un año para desarrollar una vida de oración significativa. Las oraciones devocionales basadas en las Escrituras lo llevarán a una relación más profunda y rica con Dios.
Jesus Listens, the newest 365-day devotional prayer book from Sarah Young, bestselling author of Jesus Calling, takes you...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué está temblando en tu mundo? ¿Es posible que sea tu futuro, tu fe, tu familia o tus finanzas? Este es un mundo inestable. ¿Necesitas algo de esperanza inconmovible? Si es así, no eres el único. En estos tiempos es difícil encontrar esperanza. Muchas personas creen que no hay nada mejor de lo que este mundo ofrece pero reconozcámoslo, no es así. La vida está llena de problemas, la Palabra de Dios está llena de promesas. En Esperanza...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Ya es tiempo de hacer un corte de caja. Hace dos años Andrés Manuel López Obrador estaba por ganar la presidencia de la Républica gracias a promesas que calaron hondo en 30 millones de votantes. Hoy, tras más de un año de gobierno, ¿qué ha cumplido y qué no?. Exactamente, ¿cuáles son sus logros?. ¿En qué se ha desviado del Proyecto que lo llevó al triunfo? Con datos irrefutables, José Antonio Crespo reconstruye la historia del actual...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searchers, uneasy in one way or another. They yearn for connection. They question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters; they seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances, reveling in small, everyday epiphanies and moments of clarity. In the riveting opening...
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