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Extending the Lesson: As part of the Lifelong Literacy campaign, the Library of Congress invites you to open your heart and mind to real-world issues played out in fiction. (http://read.gov/booklists/explore/social.html#esperanza) Esperanza Rising tells the story of the Great Depression form the Mexican and Mexican American perspective. From the Library of Congress website: "Esperanza's expectation that her 13th birthday will be celebrated with all the material pleasures and folk elements of her previous years is shattered when her father is murdered by bandits. His powerful stepbrothers then hold her mother as a social and economic hostage, wanting to force her remarriage to one of them. Esperanza and her mother flee to the United States and work in California's agricultural industry. They embark on a new way of life, away from the uncles, and Esperanza unwillingly enters a world where she is no longer a princess but a worker" (http://read.gov/booklists/explore/social.html#esperanza). A teacher before she became a writer, Pam Muñoz Ryan has written more than twenty-five books for young people, including "Esperanza Rising" (Scholastic, 2000), winner of the Pura Belpré Medal and the Américas Award Honor Book. She spent many summers in her youth visiting the library, where she got hooked on reading and books. (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/pam_munoz_ryan).