migrant labor

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

Ten-year-old Pablo falls out of his father's old truck on the way to pick melons in Arizona, but with the help of a coyote pup, he makes it across the border.

Combines archival photographs of Cesar Chavez and the people with whom he worked with information about his life and accomplishments.

Having crossed the country with his father during the Depression to find work in California, fourteen-year-old Roy encounters cruel exploitation..

Mary's dreams for her foster children include a warm house, regular meals and no more traveling.

Set during the Great Depression, the powerful story tells of the Joad family's trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threaten to rip their lives apart and sever the ties that bind them together.

When his family has to move again a few days before Christmas in order to find work, Panchito worries that he will not get the ball he has been wanting.

A biography of C?esar Ch?avez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.