Dark Harvest

Migrant Farmworkers in America

by Brent Ashabranner
photographs by Paul Conklin

• 1994 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
• Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1986
• An ALA Notable Book, 1985
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, 1986
• A Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies, 1985–NCSS/CBC
  

"An outstanding combination of coherent narrative and sensitive photography will take readers into the fields with migrant workers who . . . tell their own stories of what life is like following the crops. . . . Presents facts with a personal sense of involvement that lends urgency to descriptions of children housed and fed below the poverty standards, shatters some myths about lazy migrant workers, and yet gives a clear outline of the labor, routes, ethnic groups, agribusiness corporations, and educational/legal problems involved." – Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (12/85)

About the Author

Brent Ashabranner has written widely on American social history and complex social issues for young readers. He has worked in Ethiopia, Libya, and Nigeria for U.S. foreign assistance programs and for the Ford Foundation in the Philippines and Indonesia. He was director of the Peace Corps program in India and deputy director of the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C. Currently Mr. Ashabranner lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and devotes most of his time to writing.

Other titles by Brent Ashabranner:

• The Lion’s Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Tales