01019cam a2200277 4500 123928630 TxAuBib 20041014120000.0 ||||||s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 00024186 9780439120418 0439120411 TxAuBib Ryan, Pam Mu. Esperanza rising / by Pam Mu. 1st ed. NY : Scholastic Press, 2000. 262 p. 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. 20090105. Texas Bluebonnet Nominee, 2002. Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction California. Agricultural laborers Fiction. California Fiction. TXLMP