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43) The loner
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The story about a lonely boy who has no home or family. Then people befriend him, give him a name, an identity--everything he has ever longed for, but will it last?
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
APPRX .25 HOURS $15.75. NARRATED BY: LUIS MORENO. BOOK -NN ILLUS: DUNCAN TONATIUH. $16.95. A MIGRANT'S TALE. WHEN PAPA RABBIT DOES NOT RETURN HOME AS EXPECTED FROM MANY SEASONS OF WORKING IN THE GREAT CARROT AND LETTUCE FIELDS OF EL NORTE, HIS SON PANCHO SETS OUT ON A DANGEROUS TREK TO FIND HIM, GUIDED BY A COYOTE.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their farm from foreclosure, Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers that they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
La familia de Mari se encuentra a la deriva, con una gran necesidad de trabajo, pero se ve forzada a esconderse por miedo a que las autoridades los devuelvan a México y a la pobreza.La familia de Tyler lucha...
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
Cuando �l viaja con su familia de los trabajadores migratorios del campo, Diego se f�a de su radio para proporcionarlo con compa�erismo y ayuda lo conecta a todos los lugares diferentes en que �l vive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother." Includes historical note.
58) Truth and salsa
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Having moved temporarily from Michigan to live with her grandmother in Mexico, twelve-year-old Hayley tries to sort out her feelings about her parents' separation while also helping some townsmen who have run into trouble while working in the United States.
60) Mary Coin
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression.