Module 9: Harvesting Hope

Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar Chavez

written by: Kathleen Krull

illustrated by: Yuyi Morales

Publisher: Harcourt, 2003

ISBN: 0152014373

Price $17.00

Harvesting Hope received the 2004 Jane Addams Award and the illustrations from Harvesting Hope by Yuyi Morales received the Pura Belpre Award, 2004. How do you teach children they can make a difference? Share Harvesting Hope, the Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull. Krull vividly describes the young life of Cesar Chavez as happy, prosperous and full of family events until the drought of 1937. The family could no longer make a living on the land so they moved to California and became migrant workers. Hard work, little pay, no respect made Cesar realize something needed to change. Trying to honor his mother's teaching,  Cesar tried to create change with his words and not violence. He organized La Causa which became the National Farm Workers Association.

Review:

Book Links: 'The immense challenges farmworkers faced come through clearly, and Krull effectively puts Chavez's struggles and successes into context as he began a lifelong fight for fair and safe working conditions."

Tilottson, Laura. "Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez." Book Links 13, no. 3 (2004) http://ezproxy.twu.edu:2052/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=11866003&site=ehost-live.

The Reading Teacher: "This book would enrich study of the struggle for equal rights in the United States and be a valuable addition to biography and hero and heroine study."

Frerichs, Joy. "Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez." The Reading Teacher 58, no. 3 (2004): 268. http://ezproxy.twu.edu:2052/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=15022084&site=ehost-live.