Cesar Chavez: Champion and Voice of Farmworkers

by Suzanne Slade, Jeffery Thompson (Illustrator)

Having had to labor in fields most of his youth, Cesar Chavez knew firsthand how badly farm workers were once treated. Find out how this labor organizer fought for workers' rights and challenged farm owners to change their ways.

24 pages, Library Binding

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Sibert honoree author of more than 150 books for chlldren.

Reviews

[wildct2003 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basic info good pictures

[Faloni © · Rating 5 out of 5]

💎⛄️🔒🏡❄️🏔⛷💎?I have bunch of respect for the type of people that doesn’t flirt with
someone who is already taken.

[Earl · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty standard biography.

While the text was dry, I did enjoy the illustrations, the bold outline artwork of Jeffrey Thompson.

Includes a timeline and glossary.

[Jessica Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Word Count: 774
Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: K-3
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.1 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 115659 (08/06/07) / grade: Lower Grades
Lexile: 740L

In this book we walk through the life of Cesar Chavez and learn about all the activist work he did for farm workers as he fought for them to have better labor conditions and better pay. This book first tell his life story as a boy and where he ended up working in fruit fields after he quit school to work full time. Leading readers through his fight for civil rights throughout his life until his death at 66.

[Emelda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that this Cesar Chavez kids' biography bothered to mention his wife, that he helped organize a union (no movement stands on one person's shoulders), also had a page about how he was against pesticides, and said he kept organizing until he died. Still no mention of Dolores Huerta...