01952cam a2200505 i 4500 623733370 TxAuBib 20070515120000.0 000216s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00024186 9780439120418 hc. alkaline paper 0439120411 hc. alkaline paper 9780439576178 paperback 0439576172 paperback 9780439120425 paperback 043912042X paperback 9780439771252 paperback 0439771250 paperback (OCoLC)43487323 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib rda Ryan, Pam Muñoz, author. Esperanza rising / Pam Muñoz Ryan. First edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2000. 262 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier For the first 12 years of her life, Esperanza Ortega is pampered by servants and sheltered by her doting parents on their ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. But a sudden tragedy shatters that world of wealth and privilege. Homeless and destitute, she and her mother emigrate to California to work in the fields and start a new life. 9-12. 4-7. 750 Lexile. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.3 6.0 44286. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 6 44286. 20070515. Pura Belpre Award, 2002. WILLA Literary Award, 2001. Mexican Americans California Juvenile fiction. Mexican Americans Fiction. Agricultural laborers Fiction. California Juvenile fiction. California Fiction. Fiction. TXKPL