Esperanza Rising by Pamela Munoz Ryan

This is a wonderful little book. When Esperanza, the daughter of a wealthy rancher in Mexico, is forced to run away from the only home she’s ever had, leave behind her lavish lifestyle, and move to California in the midst of the Great Depression, she must dig deep and find strength she didn’t know she had. For example, when she first came to California, she could not even sweep a floor because she’d always had servants to do that for her. By the end, though, she was working in the fields with people who had been doing so for years.