Brown, Monica

Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

Rau, Dana Meachen

Summary: Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET CHAVEZ

Blas, Terry

Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHA

Hart, Elva Treviño.

Summary: "A vividly told autobiographical account of the life of a child growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. Elva Trevino Hart was born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants and spent her childhood moving back and forth between Texas and Minnesota, eventually leaving that world to earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe 1999

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 HAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HAR

Loh-Hagan, Virginia

Summary: "The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Larry "Seven Fingers" Itliong, a Filipino American labor organizer, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ITL

Hernández, José M.

Summary: In this bilingual picture book, astronaut Jose M. Hernandez recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J 921 SPANISH HER

Steinbeck, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 STE

Frank, Matthew Gavin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FRA

Zannos, Susan.

Summary: A biography of the Mexican American who spent most of his life working to organize the migrant farm workers in California and was instrumental in the founding of the United Farm Workers union.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Lane Publishers 1999

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CHAVEZ ZAN