Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change (Signature Lives)
Growing up in a family of migrant farm workers, Cesar Chavez saw the poor working conditions farm laborers faced firsthand. As an adult, Chavez worked to improve the lives of farm workers who often had limited resources and struggled to provide for their families. His life’s work as a civil rights leader helped countless laborers as he led them in peaceful work strikes and boycotts.
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Brenda Haugen started in the newspaper business and had a career as an award-winning journalist before finding her niche as an author. Since then, she has written more than 50 books and edited hundreds more, most of them for children. A graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, Brenda lives in North Dakota with her dog, Alice, who chose Brenda when she went to the Humane Society thinking she was there to adopt another dog.
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Biographies are one way teachers and librarians can encourage students to look for positive role models, and this series is an excellent place to start. The books, intended for middle school readers, provide solid basic information about a variety of imp --VOYA
Brenda Haugens biography of Cesar Chavez (from the series Signature Lives: Modern America.) is an inviting and thorough exploration of this American civil rights leader. The highquality production of expository text and photographic features, explores Ch --Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Brenda Haugens biography of Cesar Chavez (from the series Signature Lives: Modern America.) is an inviting and thorough exploration of this American civil rights leader. The highquality production of expository text and photographic features, explores Ch --Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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- PublisherCompass Point Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 075653321X
- ISBN 13 9780756533212
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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