About the book: 2008 / Esperanza thought that she would always live with her beloved parents in a rich house full of servants, wear elegant dresses and receive expensive gifts for the holidays. But a sudden misfortune turned her world upside down: bandits killed her father, a wealthy Mexican landowner, and Esperanza and her mother had to flee their home country to the United States. A pampered girl ends up in a farm workers' camp with her sick mother. She shows extraordinary courage, works hard, overcoming fatigue and need, and finally, like a phoenix, is reborn to a new life. No wonder her name means “hope” in Spanish.».