For many church members, picking crops destined to help others has brought back memories.
The background was researched by her to be typical of the Isis area fields where they had worked picking crops.
There is altogether too much voice-over narration in the tale, as the 12-year-old hero, Marcos, tells of his family's annual migration to pick crops.
Having enough workers to pick crops was the main goal of the legalization program for farm laborers.
And besides, he lived in Boise as a youngster - picking crops.
After that she survived by picking crops in the same fields where her parents had toiled.
She dropped out of school after ninth grade to plow fields and pick crops once her parents became old.
You're wondering how a guy who used to pick crops in South Texas can drive a Mercedes?
We have a lot take jobs picking crops on farms - they get food, a bed, $7 an hour.
Hernandez himself had picked crops in the field in his youth.