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C?sar Ch?vez

a voice for farmworkers
2005
Presents a brief biography of Cesar Chavez, describing the life and accomplishments of the Mexican American labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers. Includes photographs.

C?sar Ch?vez

2006
Presents a graphic novel biography of the life of Cesar Chavez, explaining the historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.

C?sar Ch?vez

a brief biography with documents
2002
Presents a biography of Cesar Chavez, a Chicano farm worker-labor organizer, with short essays written by people involved in his life.

Casey at the bat

2002
Detailed charcoal drawings by sports artist LeRoy Neiman are used to illustrate the classic narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

Fidel Castro

leader of Cuba's Revolution
2001
A biography of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from his childhood to his meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1998.

Summer doorways

a memoir
2006
Poet W.S. Merwin chronicles his life in Europe in the years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.

Desert solitaire

a season in the wilderness
1971
Author's account of his three seasons as a park ranger in Southeastern Utah.

To lose a war

memories of a German girl
1982

Cesar Chavez and La Causa

1986
Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American who helped organize farm workers into a powerful union.

In my father's bakery

a Bronx memoir
2003
Marvin Korman recounts the memories he has of growing up in the Bronx and working in his father's Jewish bakery.

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