Fiction/Non-fiction in which Migrant Workers appear:
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
A Painted House, by John Grisham
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (I think Lennie and George qualify as migrant workers)
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
Judy’s Journey, by Lois Lenski
The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost
La Bamba (early in the movie, Richie Valens and his family are migrant farm workers)
One Child, by Torey Hayden (her student aide is an uneducated, unskilled migrant worker. He earns his G.E.D. and gets accepted in college, later getting a master’s in special education).
Fiction/Non-fiction in which Migrant Workers appear:
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
A Painted House, by John Grisham
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (I think Lennie and George qualify as migrant workers)
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
Judy’s Journey, by Lois Lenski
The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost
La Bamba (early in the movie, Richie Valens and his family are migrant farm workers)
One Child, by Torey Hayden (her student aide is an uneducated, unskilled migrant worker. He earns his G.E.D. and gets accepted in college, later getting a master’s in special education).
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (Wang Lung and his family are forced to leave their farm and move to the city, where he pulls a rickshaw and they beg.)
Fiction/Non-fiction in which Migrant Workers appear:
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
A Painted House, by John Grisham
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (I think Lennie and George qualify as migrant workers)
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
Judy’s Journey, by Lois Lenski
The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost
La Bamba (early in the movie, Richie Valens and his family are migrant farm workers)
One Child, by Torey Hayden (her student aide is an uneducated, unskilled migrant worker. He earns his G.E.D. and gets accepted in college, later getting a master’s in special education).
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (Wang Lung and his family are forced to leave their farm and move to the city, where he pulls a rickshaw and they beg.)
Harvest of Shame, by Edward R. Murrow and CBS News
Fiction/Non-fiction in which Migrant Workers appear:
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
A Painted House, by John Grisham
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (I think Lennie and George qualify as migrant workers)
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
Judy’s Journey, by Lois Lenski
The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost
La Bamba (early in the movie, Richie Valens and his family are migrant farm workers)
One Child, by Torey Hayden (her student aide is an uneducated, unskilled migrant worker. He earns his G.E.D. and gets accepted in college, later getting a master’s in special education).
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (Wang Lung and his family are forced to leave their farm and move to the city, where he pulls a rickshaw and they beg.)
Harvest of Shame, by Edward R. Murrow and CBS News
The Harvesters: The Story of the Migrant People, by Louisa R. Shotwell
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