"Savannah Harris vowed to leave behind her old life as an investigative reporter. But when two migrant workers go missing from her sleepy coastal town on the Chesapeake Bay, her curiosity spikes. As ever more eerie incidents occur, Savannah is drawn out of her seclusion and the stakes are raised--for both Savannah and the surrounding community"--

The author recalls his childhood in the mountains and valleys of California with his farmworker parents who inspired him with poetry and song.

Sanora Babb' s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author' s firsthand experience. This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma...

Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America—a “heartrending, take–no–prisoners” novel (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award finalist.
A vital and unsparing vision of America from National Book Award finalist Susan Straight. At three years Elvia was placed in foster care when her mother, Serafina, an undocumented migrant worker, was deported. Twelve years later, Serafina...

Publisher Annotation: Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and let tadpoles swim across his hands in a creek. He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town. He went to school and taught himself to read and write English and filled paper pads with rivers of ink as he walked down the street...

A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.