agricultural laborers

Explains what farms are, looks at the various jobs that need to be done on a farm, and asks questions designed to help young readers decide whether they would like to work on a farm. Includes a glossary and resources for further research.

Examines the lives of seasonal migrant farm laborers in America.

A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.

A biography of the United Farm Workers of America's first female organizer, Jessie De La Cruz, a Mexican American who began working in the California fields at the age of five, joined the UFW in 1966, and helped relieve the plight of field workers throughout the late twentieth century.

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.

Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, and describes how he fought to establish better working conditions and wages for migrant workers in California.

Anna, the child of Mennonites from Mexico who travel north to harvest fruit and vegetables, compares herself to various animals that share some of her behaviors, and wonders what it would be like to be a tree with deep roots as opposed to a feather in the wind.

A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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.