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A Seed in the Sun
A Seed in the Sun | Aida Salazar
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**Four starred reviews!** A farm-working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers’ rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Muñoz Ryan. Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá’s volatile temper, it’s hard to hold on to those dreams. Then she meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and realizes she may need to raise her voice sooner rather than later: Farmworkers are striking for better treatment and wages, and whether Lula’s family joins them or not will determine their future.
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An informative novel in verse about a young girl and her migrant farming family during the Delano grape strike lead by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Well done.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 8mo
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August #bookspin pick is a middle grade novel in verse. Looks like it‘s gonna be good one. Still working on last months pick but I‘ll get to it. Eventually.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!!! 9mo
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Novel in verse: HF based on the birth of farm workers unions in 1965, at the grape harvests in Delano, CA. The Filipino families started a strike demanding higher pay, fair breaks to cool off, safe working conditions, and equal rights for female workers & children, among other things (illnesses/death from pesticide spraying). Cesar Chavez joined the fight, and soon after, Dolores Huerta. It was no picnic.
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