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La Causa: The Migrant Farmworkers' Story (Stories of America)

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I used this book to as a background for a two week unit on Latin American Culture in the United States to a fourth grade class. My students were intrigued and began to think about new issues of justice. The book is artfully written so that even an adult can gain valuable insight. Ceasar Chavez' story is inspiring and challenges all to question the status quo. One chapter may be a little graphic for some young children, I skipped it in class. But overall, tremendous, and one of my Hispanic-American students said it is one of the best books ever read to them.

Do you or does your child know where your food comes from? No, I do not mean in plastic wrapping in pristine supermarkets. This book tells the ever-important story of those people who do backbreaking labor, hour after hour, day after day, for basic wages (and sometimes not even that), with few benefits most of us take for granted. Although the book tells of the founding of the United Farm Workers Union, the issues of social justice facing migrant farmworkers remain as current as they did a century ago. This is a book every school child and parent should read. This book tells of the conditions that led Cesar Chaves and his wife, Delores Huerta, to organize and found the United Farm Workers in the face of considerable personal danger and against strong odds. An epilogue and afterword tells of the contribution of Chavez and the union, along with the challenges these largely invisible people face today.