Esperanza Rising

I read this book for my Children's Literature class and I'm so glad that I was assigned this book. This book is so important and again I'm at a lost as to why this book wasn't assigned to me when I was younger. Losing everything and having to start over is the story of many immigrant families currently living in the United States. Seeing Esperanza's transformation into a spoiled girl to a responsible, hard-working young woman was incredible.