Learning Through Literature

 

Esperanza Rising, presents a touching view of the mass migration north of Mexican citizens, through the eyes of a young girl. Esperanza has to deal with the triumphs and tragedies of becoming a woman while at the same time seeing her family torn apart by death, destruction, illness, and separation, all set against the backdrop of depression-era Southern California migrant-labor camps.

 

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Crispin is a book about a young boy who begins his life without a name. His mother is dead and he has no clue who his father is.  All he has to guide him is a few words on the cross of lead left to him by his unknown father.

 

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