Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)

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4.5
854 reviews
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304
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Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances-because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.

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4.5
854 reviews
Dezahria Jones
November 16, 2014
This book is so touching we read This in school and I took so long to read but I love it I'm in the 5th grade.This book is a bout a young girl named Esperanza who is very wealthy until her papa dies then her mother is a widow she has to learn how to do things buy her through her adventure of moving away for Mexico Because, Tio Luis is trying to make Mama marry him so they move America where she has to work for her mother to get better for The Valley fever she has and she has to learn not to be spoiled.
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Amy Gonzalez
April 24, 2017
I enjoyed this book The only thing that I dislike was the ending the way she cut off from the story and gave brief details of their adult life not knowing what happened truly to everyone. A little more romance would have been nice too. Other than that it was a terrific book to read.
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Alicia Avila
July 10, 2014
ok to start out i love this book it is very sad n it was very sad that esperanza had to give the last doll away it was special to her cause papa had gave it to her. And Esperanza needs to learn how to do stuff she never did like clean pepe's and lupe's diper and make the beans yeahhhh.
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About the author

Pam Muñoz Ryan is the recipient of the Newbery Honor Medal and the Kirkus Prize for her New York Times bestselling novel, Echo, as well as the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature for her body of work. She is the 2018 U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award and 2024 Children’s Literature Legacy Award Recipient. Her celebrated novels, Mañanaland, Echo, Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Léon, and Paint the Wind, have received countless accolades, among them two Pura Belpré Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and two Américas Awards. Her acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride and When Marian Sang, both illustrated by Brian Selznick, and Tony Baloney, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, as well as a beginning reader series featuring Tony Baloney. Ryan lives near San Diego, California, with her family.

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