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Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years

Time Period:  1934 — 1935  Rosa Sanchez's parents took a chance on their future by emigrating from Mexico to the United States. Now, the ten-year-old takes a chance of her own. She wants to go to school! That's not easy for an immigrant girl in the Texas Panhandle of 1935-and it's even more challenging when the terrible, black-clouded storms of the "Dust Bowl" strike. Can Rosa hold to her God-given dream of a good education while her family battles for survival on the windswept plains? This novel for eight- to twelve-year-old girls features historical events to teach compelling lessons in American history and the Christian faith.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 140
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781597890656
  • Genres
  • christian
  • Release date
  • 2006