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Series
Language
English
Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
3) Food chains
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the unsafe working conditions and low wages of laborers on American farms.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
He asked farm workers to walk off their jobs. He led marches to improve the rights of the campesinos. He fasted to protest the poor working conditions of migrant workers. He asked Americans to boycott grapes and lettuce until pesticides were banned from the fields. César Chávez was a hero.
5) Cesar Chavez
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of civil rights leader and labor organizer, Cesar Chavez, who worked for the rights of immigrants and farm workers.
7) Hard Row
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When another body is found, these newlyweds will discover dark truths that threaten to permanently alter the serenity of their rural surroundings and their new life together.
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing...
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican...
9) Imperial
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxx, 1306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border. For generations of migrant workers, from Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to Mexican laborers today, Imperial County has held the promise of paradise—and the reality of hell. It is a land beautiful and harsh, enticing and deadly, rich in history and heartbreak. Across the border, the desert...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1067 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Contains writings completed by Steinbeck between 1936 and 1941, featuring "The Grapes of Wrath," and including a report on migrant workers, several short stories, and an account of a marine expedition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.
Un libro de poemas sobre el trabajo en los campos y generosidad de la naturaleza, uno para cada letra del alfabeto español.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 1/2 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Honest and powerful stories of a family's journey to the fields of California, to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one place home, this is a story of survival, faith and hope.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Every night when he was a boy, José M. Hernández would look out the window and stare at the stars. They were different colors: blue, yellow and white. Some were larger and brighter than others, and some twinkled as if they were alive. Later, when he saw man land on the moon on TV, he knew he wanted to be an astronaut. But José struggled in school because his family moved constantly and he didn't speak English. His parents were migrant workers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.
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