A Mexican "Grapes of Wrath," based on a family story, from the award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan.
Esperanza pensaba que siempre viviría con su familia en su rancho en México, y que siempre tendía hermosos vestidos y una linda casa llena de sirvientes. Pero una tragedia inesperada las obliga a ella y a su madre a escapar a California en la época de la Gran Depresión, y a asentarse en un campamento para trabajadores agrícolas mexicanos. Esperanza no está preparada para el trabajo duro, las penur...
Good children’s book that explores an interesting period of history
This is a children’s book, but the story is interesting enough to engage an adult reader. This period of history, migrant workers arriving in California during the Great Depression, is interesting to explore, most famously depicted in the book Grapes of Wrath.
So this hit the sweet spot for me as a language learner - easy enough for a child to read, but interesting for the adult reader. It’s also well written with some good descriptive passages.
There’s a bit of specialist vocabulary that come