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Esperanza Rising - Children's Books | Scholastic Kids
12345678910112131415161718192022223 Our land is alive, Esperanza , said Papa, tak-ing her small hand as they walked throughthe gentle slopes of the vineyard. Leafygreen vines draped the arbors and the grapes wereready to drop. Esperanza was six years old andloved to walk with her papa through the windingrows, gazing up at him and watching his eyesdance with love for the land. This whole valley breathes and lives, he said,sweeping his arm toward the distant mountainsthat guarded them. It gives us the grapes and thenthey welcome us. He gently touched a wild ten-dril that reached into the row, as if it had beenwaiting to shake his hand. He picked up a hand fulof earth and studied it. Did you know that whenyou lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe?That you can feel its heart beating? Papi, I want to feel it, she said. Come. They walked to the end of the row,1 AGUASCALIENTES, 11/12/14 4:09 PM Page 1where the incline of the land formed a lay down on his stomach and looked up ather, patting the ground next to him.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2 22 23 “O ur land is alive, Esperanza,” said Papa, tak-ing her small hand as they walked through the gentle ...
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