When her wealthy landowner father dies and his home is burned, Esperanza and her mother go to America to escape the wicked step brothers of Esperanza's father. She has been pampered and lived with many servants, but now she finds herself working in the fruit/vegetables fields of California. Additionally, she is tasked with tending babies, changing dirty diapers, and doing cleaning, cooking which she has never had to do before.
The reader sees Esperanza grow and develop in this sweet book of the trials that the Mexican laborers face in working in California.
I give it four and half stars.
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