Esperanza rising / Ryan, Pam Muñoz Mexican Americans Agricultural laborers 813 SCH 2000 A094 Or. 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. New York : Scholastic Press, ©2000. ©2000. Text 262 pages ;