Book Report On Esperanza Rising

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“Never let a stumble be the end of your journey”. Many say “Hardship make or break people” and that’s the same thing in the book “Esperanza Rising ” by Pam Munoz Ryan the main character Esperanza has a fairytale life. Her father Sixto is a wealthy landowner in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and Esperanza is his only child. She has fancy dresses, dolls, and all the papaya salad she can eat. Every year after the grape harvest, her parents, grandmother Abuelita, and all the household servants throw her a huge birthday party. But things changed and got worse bandits capture and kill papa while he was out with his close friend or to say a son whose name is Miguel. When evil step brother takes over Papa's land but Mama refuses to sell it to him, so he

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