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Language
English
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When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir"--
5) Dreamers
Author
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
6) Soñadores
Author
Language
Español
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Description
"This Spanish edition of Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, published simultaneously with the English edition, is the author's own immigration story and a tribute to the transformative power of hope. and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she...
7) Cesar Chavez
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Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights. He formed a Union and led strikes and marches that forced landowners to increase wages and improve working conditions. This account shows how Chavez inspired others, proving that it was not necessary to resort to violence to produce change.
Author
Series
Oklahoma western biographies volume 2
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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11) César Chávez
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Lerner
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
[Spanish ed.].
Language
Español
Description
Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Chef and television personality Aarón Sánchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to ups and downs in New York City's ever-changing restaurant scene, and ultimately to the dizzying world of food television, Sánchez draws strength from hard-won lessons and embraces the challenge...
Author
Publisher
Floricanto
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
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Description
"Conmemorando el 50 aniversario del gran triunfo de la Huelga de la uva, iniciada el verano de 1965, este libro compagina el estudio de la historia de la Unión de Campesinos con el de la persona de César Chávez."--Backcover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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Description
Pawel draws on thousands of documents and interviews to examine the myths and achievements marking the life of the iconic Latino labor leader and civil rights activist, portraying him as a flawed but brilliant strategist who was often at odds with himself.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence."--www.Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Libros Viajeros ed.
Language
Español
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
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