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After learning that she needs a liver transplant and that her time may be limited, Callie Vanetta decides to move out to her late grandparents' farm, which hasn't worked in years. Callie fears that making the farm operational may be too much work; but things look up when a handsome, mysterious stranger offers to trade work for shelter. What initially seemed like an ideal temporary situation begins to look more permanent, and Callie has to try and...
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"A biography of Cesar Chavez, a social activist, union organizer, and spokesperson for the poor. Also profiled are two prominent individuals, who are associated through the influences they had on one another, the successes they achieved, or the goals they worked toward. Includes recommended readings and web sites"--Provided by publisher.
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Escrita en el espanol original, es la novela clasica escrita por Tomas Rivera. Se trata de una familia Mexicano-Americana como trabajadores imigrantes durante los 1950's vista por los ojos de un nino. Explotado por campesinos, propietarios y aun companeros mexicano-americanos el nino tiene que esforzarse por el mismo al encontratse con la cara de la explotacion la muerte y las enfermedades. (A Mexican-American family's life as migrant workers during...
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Inspired by the author's own childhood in rural Arkansas, this moving story follows one boy's journey from innocence to experience. Luke Chandler, 7, lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. During the harvest, he sees and hears things no child could possibly be prepared for and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever....
91) Cesar Chavez
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A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.
94) Cesar Chavez
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In graphic novel format, describes the life and work of Cesar Chavez.
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What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape. In 2009 she embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters.
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In this first published anthology, Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback present Chavez in his own terms. Through this collection and through his own words and analysis of his major speeches and writings, Jensen and Hammerback reveal the rhetorical qualities and underlying rhetorical dynamics of a master communicator and also offer a rich source of the history of the farm workers' movement Chavez led from the early 1940s to his death in 1993.