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22) Breaking through
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
23) Esperanza rising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
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.
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Language
English
Description
The Joad family from Oklahoma has seen their share of hardship but when the Dust Bowl strikes and crops start to fail they, along with thousands of other midwesterners, head to California.
27) Rough love
Author
Series
Publisher
[Lauren Landish]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Second chances aren't easy. Sometimes, it takes some Rough Love. Bruce Tannen is known as Brutal from his days as a monster on the football field. But now, he's a farmhand on what used to be his family's land, and change is all around him. New family. New expectations. New friends. It's all fine by him until he runs into the one woman to ever hold his heart. Allyson left him a lifetime ago, but she's the only thing that's ever felt right. In his...
28) With these hands
Author
Publisher
Pilgrim Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Life of agricultural workers in rural America.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Language
English
Description
""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful influence on American culture, and has inspired artists as diverse as John Ford, Woody Guthrie, and Bruce Springsteen.
35) Of mice and men
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lennie and George take a job at the Tyler Ranch in Depression era California, but their simple world is ripped apart by tragedy when there is an accidental death.
Author
Publisher
HarerCollinsEspañol/Quill Tree Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Describes the partnership between Dolores Huerta and César Cháves, the founding of the National Farm Workers Association, and their combined efforts to improve working conditions for agricultural laborers. Presented in English and Spanish.
39) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
