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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of...
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of...
2) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tom Isherwood
Language
English
Description
"At the age of 8, Isherwood was shipped off from England to Canada as unknowingly, his siblings were sent to Australia. He never knew his family. His pain and anger didn’t go away once he entered adulthood. With no official paperwork from either government, he learned that officially, he didn’t exist. No one in a position of authority was willing to help. His calls went unanswered. Over the years, this story has been covered by the national...
4) Hard row
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Series
Language
English
Description
A case involving a barroom brawl reveals ugly racial tensions within a North Carolina community that eventually culminate in the murder of an unpopular farmer, leading judge Deborah Knott into an encounter with the darker side of migrant farm labor.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these...
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