Esperanza rising
Record details
- ISBN: 0613538072
- ISBN: 9780613538077
- ISBN: 0756910560
- ISBN: 9780756910563
- ISBN: 0439270030
- ISBN: 9780439270038
- ISBN: 0439771250
- ISBN: 9780439771252
- ISBN: 043912042X
- ISBN: 9780439120425
- ISBN: 0439576172
- ISBN: 9780439576178
- ISBN: 0439120411
- ISBN: 9780439120418
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Physical Description:
262 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, ©2000.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Of After Words guide: About the author -- Q & A with Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Make your own Jamaica flower punch -- Making Mama's yarn doll -- Those familiar sayings -- What story do you have to tell? |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Trini Alvarado. |
Summary, etc.: | When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. 750L Lexile. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 6.0. Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 5.3 6.0 Kilgore Intermediate. |
Awards Note: | Pura Belpré Author Award, 2002 Willa Literary Award for young adult book, 2001 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2001 |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. |
Available copies
- 72 of 76 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Thomaston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 76 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Thomaston Public Library | J RYAN (Text) | 34020116486067 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
Author Pam Muñoz Ryan was born in Bakersfield, California on December 25, 1951. She received a B. A. in child development and a M. A. in education from San Diego State University. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a bilingual Head Start teacher and as an early childhood program administrator. At first, she wrote adult books about child development, but soon switched to writing children's books. She has written over twenty-five picture books, novels, and nonfiction books for young readers. The novel Esperanza Rising, winner of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, and the Americas Award Honor Book, is based on her own grandmother's immigration from Mexico to California. Riding Freedom has also won many awards including the national Willa Cather Award and the California Young Reader Medal. When Marian Sang, a picture book about singer Marian Anderson, won numerous awards including the ALA Sibert Honor and NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award. In 2015 her title Echo made The New York Times Best Seller List. She also won a Kirkus Prize in the children's literature category with her title 'Echo'. (Bowker Author Biography)