Title: Esperanza means hope
Description: In 1876 Tucson, Arizona, twelve-year-old Esperanza is overjoyed that her older brother, Carlos, has been brought home but struggles to understand why he wants to return to the Apaches who kidnapped him seven years earlier.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Indians of North America, Apache Indians, Family life, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Indian captivities, History, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Indian captivities, fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Family life, fiction, Arizona, fiction
Places: Arizona, Tucson (Ariz.)
Time periods: 19th century