Esperanza Rising - Book Report by Jordan

Jordan has been quite the busy writer lately....he just finished his book report on Esparanza Rising....he wanted to post the summary....

---------------------------------------

Esparanza Rising is about a girl named Esparanza who is struggling in life. Esparanza has a life that is a dream to everyone else. Everything changes on her birthday when her Papa is murdered by bandits. Then Papa’s brother Tio Luis takes over Papa’s ranch. Tio Luis then tries to marry Mama, but she refuses. He then sets their house on fire injuring Abuelita.

Esparanza, Mama, Miguel, a childhood friend, and his parents, Hortensia and Alfonso go to Los Angeles and start working at a Mexican camp. There Esparanza meets a girl named Isabel, two babies named Pepe and Lupe and their parents Jose and Josafina.

A girl named Marta and other people go on strike for better housing. It goes on for days and ends when immigration officials come and take most people away to Mexico. The others go back to the camp.

Soon after the strike a big dust storm occurs. Mama then gets a illness called Valley Fever. Valley Fever makes it easy for people to get other diseases. Mama contracts pneumonia while in the hospital. It takes several months for her to come home from the hospital.

Esparanza starts to work in the sheds and fields to earn money. With her money she buys money orders. Esparanza is saving her money orders to pay the hospital bills and bring Abuelita from Mexico.

When Mama comes home from the hospital the money orders are gone. Miguel left that morning and stole the money orders. He called a couple days later to tell them to meet him at a train station in Bakersfield. He used the money orders to bring Abuelita from Mexico and no one is mad at him.