Migrant Worker - Hardcover
The story of a migrant farmer's life is told from the perspective of eleven-year-old Ricky, who spends his summer months far from home picking the harvest, sometimes under dangerous conditions, and describes his admiration for Ce+a7sar Cha+a7vez.
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Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith is the art director of Square Moon Productions, a book design and development company. She lives with her husband, a son, and a daughter in Orinda, California.
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Gr. 4^-7. There's an upbeat quality to this photo-essay about an 11-year-old Mexican American migrant worker on the Texas border. The text includes the harsh facts of child labor, poverty, and separated families, but the pictures show a smiling Ricardo "Ricky" Benitez, proud of his family, his culture, and his success in his wonderful bilingual school. In some detail, he talks about his neighborhood in the Rio Grande Valley, his job (during the summer he travels with his family to distant farms to work long hours in the fields), and how important education is to him as a way up. The design is a bit of a hodge-podge; the first-person narrative doesn't always sound like Ricky's voice, and the switch to third person in the photo captions and sidebars is jarring. Also included is an account of Cesar Chavez and the struggle of the United Farm Workers. Ricky knows he's lucky--most migrant workers aren't able to stay in one place during the school year--but the grim facts are here, too, and his personal story does give a human face to the migrant farmworkers in the U.S. Kids will be drawn to the story of a boy like them. Hazel Rochman
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- PublisherHoliday House
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0823412253
- ISBN 13 9780823412259
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
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Book Description Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Holiday House Pub Date: 2/1/1996 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 32 First edition. Seller Inventory # 6735337
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Holiday House. 1996. New York. Hardcover. Large format. There is an imprinted name and address of what appears to be a migrant non-profit organization, at the bottom right corner of front free endpaper (made with a stamping device). Both book and dust jacket are in terrific shape. Sub-titled 'A Boy from the Rio Grande Valley.' The story of a migrant farmer's life from the perspective of 11-year-old Ricky. Wonderfully formatted, truly educational. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Indexed. 32 pages. Securely packed in a lidded box. Seller Inventory # 014914
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