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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stonger than its individual members and more frightening. led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the "courage never to submit or yield."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
5) Reaching out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Leaving his home in a migrant community, Francisco sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice.
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20th Century Fox studio classics volume 17
Pub. Date
2004
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The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
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Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved by Random House when The Grapes of Wrath met with wide acclaim. In the belief that Steinbeck already adequately explored the subject matter, Babb's lyrical novel about a farm family's relentless struggle to survive in both Depression-era Oklahoma and in the California migrant labor camps gathered dust for decades.^B Rescued from obscurity by the University...
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Bajo la alambrada -- Soledad -- De dentro hacia afuera -- Un milagro en Tent City -- El ǹgel de oro -- El aguinaldo -- Muerte perdonada -- El costal de algodn̤ -- Cajas de carton̤ -- El juego de la patada -- Tener y retener -- Peregrinos inmv̤iles.
Francisco Jimenez chronicles the experiences he had after his family left Mexico for California when he was just a child.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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"'La frontera'... I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la front era, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California - to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from...
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[2017]
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Fictional narrative that pieces together the stories of the victims and witnesses of a plane crash that occurred on January 28, 1948 in the Diablo Range near Fresno, California, which killed 32 people, among them 28 Mexican deportees, and inspired a song by Woody Guthrie. Intended as a companion to a forthcoming documentary.
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Pub. Date
2001
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"In this story, Susan Straight takes us back to the multiracial area of southern California that is, in Faulkner's phrase, her "postage stamp of soil." As in her highly acclaimed earlier novels, she has created a world of richly imagined characters struggling to retain their dignity and humanity in an often brutal environment." "Serafina is fifteen, a Mexican Indian girl desperate to leave her impoverished existence in Oaxaca. Emigrating illegally...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Every night when he was a boy, Jose M. Hernandez would look out the window and stare at the stars. They were different colors: blue, yellow and white. Some were larger and brighter than others, and some twinkled as if they were alive. Later, when he saw man land on the moon on TV, he knew he wanted to be an astronaut. But Jose̹ struggled in school because his family moved constantly and he didn't speak English. His parents were migrant workers...
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Criterion collection volume 609
Pub. Date
[2012]
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A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...