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Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Mandingo
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can't understand...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of Mice and Men was John Steinbeck's first masterpiece. Originally published in 1937, it's the timeless story of George Milton and Lennie Small, ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one step ahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse. George is small, wiry, sharp-tongued and quick-tempered; slow witted Lennie is his opposite--an immense man, brutishly strong but naturally docile, a giant with the mind of a child. Despite their...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend a new school, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
8) Nomadland
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, it features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the vast influence of immigrants, both legal and illegal, on modern American society, discussing the historical importance of immigration and the current controversy over laws regarding illegal immigrants.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, All screwed up is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and anarchy (1973) and Swept away (1974). It tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live...
13) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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"--...
15) Harvest of shame
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The journalist exposes the harsh world of migrant farm workers.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 milion is their Hispanic heritage.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
20) Return to sender
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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