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Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane – 1996
Ricky is an 11-year-old migrant worker. During the summer, he travels with his family from their home in Rio Grande City, Texas, to farms farther north. There they spend 10-12 hours a day in the hot sun picking fruit and vegetables and packing the harvest for market. Ricky is not protected by the federal laws that govern the hours, wages, and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Elementary Secondary Education
Valle, Isabel – 1994
Journalist Isabel Valle lived and traveled for 1 year with the family of Raul and Maria Elena Martinez, migrant farmworkers who make their permanent home in south Texas. Her reports appeared every Sunday in the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin's award-winning series "Fields of Toil." This book compiles those weekly reports, which reveal the…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life