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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
4) Reaching out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Leaving his home in a migrant community, Francisco sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice.
This volume is the autobiographical account of the author's transition from migrant living on California's central coast to the life of a college student. He chronicles his college years and introduces the people who befriended him as well as those who had prejudices against Mexicans. Throughout his story, the difficulties...
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