Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
by Elva Trevino Hart
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 760L (~4th grade) · 236 pages · 1999
Why we'd hand it over
A clear-eyed, unsentimental account of childhood in migrant farmworker camps — honest about hardship, shame, and the texture of resilience; essential reading for upper elementary/early middle grade kids ready for true stories about inequality.