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Loading... Voices from the Fields : Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Storiesby S. Beth Atkin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Novel!! I loved reading this style of novel where it felt much more personal because of the pictures, poems, and real letters included. I think a picture essay also helps the pace of the story. I think for many students and families these stories could feel connectable. I would love to find more picture essays if I teach in a higher 4-5 grade classroom. ( ) I'm re-reading right now as I read Esperanza Rising again with my kids. Not much has changed for migrant farmers in the last 70 years save for more efforts by outside agencies to try to help the children; it's so unfair to the kids and makes me sad, but they seem content with their fate and the programs aren't always that effective. Perhaps I'm just projecting my middle-class ideals on these workers, but it seems to me that the kids have little choice but to perpetuate the cycle of migrant work and poverty. no reviews | add a review
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Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families. No library descriptions found. |
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