![]() ![]() She went from wealth to poverty overnight. She was a girl who “lost” everything - her father, then her home and her country. She literally didn’t know how to use a broom, but she learned quickly and became a useful and productive worker. Her grandmother was too ill to make the journey, so she was secreted away to a nunnery until she could build enough strength to follow.Įsperanza and her mother worked with the farm workers, and it was a difficult transition for Esperanza, who had always been pampered and well cared for. ![]() With help from their former house servants, she and her mother fled north, to a farm labor camp in the central valley of California. It received the Pura Belpré Award in 2001, and richly deserves every accolade.Įsperanza Ortega was the daughter of a wealthy landowner in Mexico, but when her father was killed, life changed for this young girl, her mother and her grandmother. ![]() Esperanza means “hope” in Spanish, and the book Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, is a wonderful story about hope and the resiliency of the human spirit. ![]()
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