num_pages: 272
description: A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers' rights in this tender-hearted middle grade novel in verse perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Muoz Ryan. Lula Viramontes dreams of one day becoming someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling carpa despite her father's traditional views of what girls should be. When her family arrives for the grape harvest in Delano California Lula meets activist Dolores Huerta and el Teatro Campesino (the official theater company of the United Farm Workers). She discovers an even more pressing reason to raise her voice: the upcoming farm workers' strike an event that will determine her family's future--for better or worse. 
language: English
title: A Seed in the Sun
publisher: Dial Books