Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.
But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.
There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill from Valley Fever and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past and learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.
| ISBN: | 9780739338964 |
| Publication date: | 9th January 2007 |
| Author: | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| Publisher: | Listening Library an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Format: | CD-Audio |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity Historical Fiction |
Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas. But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill from Valley Fever and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past and learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.
Esperanza Rising features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity, Historical Fiction
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Esperanza Rising was written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and published by Listening Library an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group