A seed in the sun /
Salazar, Aida,
A seed in the sun / Aida Salazar. - 255 pages ; 22 cm.
Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights. Lula Viramontes dreams of one day becoming someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling carpa, despite her father's traditional views of what girls should be. When her family arrives for the grape harvest in Delano, California, Lula meets activist Dolores Huerta and el Teatro Campesino (the official theater company of the United Farm Workers). She discovers an even more pressing reason to raise her voice: the upcoming farm workers' strike, an event that will determine her family's future--for better or worse.
Ages 8-12. Dial Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Dial Books for Young Readers.
9780593406601 0593406605
2022032314
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Agricultural laborers--Juvenile fiction.
Employee rights--Juvenile fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.
A seed in the sun / Aida Salazar. - 255 pages ; 22 cm.
Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights. Lula Viramontes dreams of one day becoming someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling carpa, despite her father's traditional views of what girls should be. When her family arrives for the grape harvest in Delano, California, Lula meets activist Dolores Huerta and el Teatro Campesino (the official theater company of the United Farm Workers). She discovers an even more pressing reason to raise her voice: the upcoming farm workers' strike, an event that will determine her family's future--for better or worse.
Ages 8-12. Dial Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Dial Books for Young Readers.
9780593406601 0593406605
2022032314
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Agricultural laborers--Juvenile fiction.
Employee rights--Juvenile fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.