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

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

Author: Miller, Susan Martins

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.2
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 34820
Points per Word 0.000144
Page Count 140
Points per Page 0.035714

Description

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 which is to achieve an education. But she learns it is not easy in 1935 during the "Dust Bowl."