La Causa the Migrant Farmworkers Story: Student Reader

by Dana Catharine De Ruiz, Rudy Gutierrez, Richard Larios

Book Overview

Describes the efforts in the 1960s of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811480712
• ISBN13: 9780811480710
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Teaching Justice to Young Minds

I used this book to as a background for a two week unit on Latin American Culture in the United States to a fourth grade class. My students were intrigued and began to think about new issues of justice. The book is artfully written so that even an adult can gain valuable insight. Ceasar Chavez' story is inspiring and challenges all to question the status quo. One chapter may be a little graphic for some young children, I skipped it in class. But overall, tremendous, and one of my Hispanic-American students said it is one of the best books ever read to them.