The Beet Fields
The Beet Fields

Author: Gary Paulsen

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0375873058

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For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.

Beet Fields
Beet Fields

Author: Robin Somers

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781734957204

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Olive Post's bucolic farm life is already off kilter when she finds a body in the beet field. She suspects foul play, but when the coroner determines the death a suicide, her investigative instincts and years as a crime reporter kick in. Her tenacious pursuit of evidence strains her marriage and places her young children in danger as she uncovers an ominous scheme that threatens her family and their livelihood. Set on an organic farm in Santa Cruz, California--where even the most altruistic are flawed--Beet Fields underscores the importance of vigilance in an era of insatiable corporate agribusiness. With determination and courage, Olive confronts malevolent forces, struggling to restore the constancy in her home that she has worked diligently to create.

North for the Harvest
North for the Harvest

Author: Jim Norris

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780873516310

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Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolving relationships between Amercian Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and the migrant workers. Though popular convention holds that migrant workers were invariably exploited, Norris reveals that these relationships were more complex. The company often clashed with growers, sometimes while advocating for workers. And many growers developed personal ties with their workers, while workers themselves often found ways to leverage better pay and working conditions from the company. Ultimately, the lot of workers improved as the years went by. As one worker explained, something historic occurred for his family while working in the Red River Valley: "We broke the chain there."

Rows of Memory
Rows of Memory

Author: Saul Sanchez

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1609382331

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Tells the story fo Saul Sanchez and his family and other migrant farm laborers like them who endured dangerous, dirty conditions and low pay, surviving because they took care of each other. --p. 4 of cover.

The Big Beet
The Big Beet

Author: Lynn Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781862919662

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Thelma Magee fancies a burger for tea, so her husband Bert heads out to the veggie patch to pick a juicy beetroot. But no matter how hard he pulls, that beet won't budge. He might need a hand. . . A fresh Aussie take on a traditional folk tale.

The Beet Queen
The Beet Queen

Author: Louise Erdrich

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0060977507

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Orphaned fourteen-year-old Carl and his eleven-year-old sister, Mary, travel to Argus, North Dakota, to live with their mother's sister, in this tale of abandonment, sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love.

The Beet Fields
The Beet Fields

Author: Gary Paulsen

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780605178632

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The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.

Second Hoeing
Second Hoeing

Author: Hope Williams Sykes

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780803291294

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"Papa?ll work her till she drops in the field!" The backbreaking labor of German-Russian immigrants in the sugarbeet fields of Colorado is described with acute perception inøHope Sykes's Second Hoeing. First published in 1935, the novel was greeted in all quarters as an impressive and authoritative evocation of these recent immigrants and their struggle to realize the promise of their chosen country.

Factories in the Field
Factories in the Field

Author: Carey McWilliams

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-04-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0520925181

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This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

Squash Boom Beet
Squash Boom Beet

Author: Lisa Maxbauer Price

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996853002

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Rhyming text and 56 pages of beautiful color photography featuring healthy farm foods allow children to get excited about vegetables such as dragon tongue beans and fairytale eggplant to candy cane beets and green tiger zucchini.