Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child Childrens' Edition

Emma's childhood memories allow us to share the ups and downs, the joys, the sadness, of the migrant life in the U.S. in the late 1950s and 60s. Her gifted use of imagery allows the reader to experience her life through the eyes of a child. American born Emma Gonzalez was trapped in the nomadic lifestyle of her naturalized migrant American family. The book shows how her family's situation spiraled downward economically for ten years as she was dragged from Ovid, Colorado to Texas. Ovid was ...