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English
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Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
Author
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
10) Going home
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
11) Working cotton
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
12) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
13) Amelia's road
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
16) The loner
Author
Series
Publisher
D. McKay Co
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
A lonely boy who has no home and works as a migrant laborer makes friends with a sheep-raising family.
17) 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.
19) Roosevelt Grady
Author
Publisher
World Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
Story of a migrant worker's family, and of nine-year-old Roosevelt's dream of living in one place and getting to "belong."
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