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5) Migrant
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Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
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Books by Pat Mora
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
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While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
9) Blue willow
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A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
10) Working cotton
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A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
15) Going home
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Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
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When Chico starts the third grade after his migrant worker family moves to begin harvesting California grapes, he finds that self confidence and math skills help him cope with the first day of school. -- Al comenzar Chico el tercer grado después de que su familia de trabajadores migratorios agrícolas se muda para comenzar la cosecha de las uvas de California, él encuentra que su confianza en sí mismo y sus destrezas matemáticas le ayudan a enfrentarse...
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Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucía watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papá's--return.
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