Coyotes
Photos and Fun Facts for Kids

conover is a serious badass. plain and simple. he heads down to mexico, joins up with a group of pollos who, led by a coyote, sneaks through the desert for two days, crosses the border (gets beat up, tortured, and robbed along the way), spends a season picking fruit with his new amigos and then all......more

I'm not nearly eloquent enough to explain how I feel about this book & the author... A nightmare of a subject, yet I promise you will somehow find yourself thoroughly entertained - even laughing - without ever losing sight of the author's sincerity towards the matter.......more

If you eat fruit or vegetables grown in the US anywhere except your own garden, you should read this book. Shades of Orwell (Wigan Pier), Steinbeck (everything), Agee (Let Us Now) plus elements of a road novel. The author lived with and traveled with Mexican workers for a year, making two illegal bo......more

I like the first hand look at the life and work of Mexican immigrants working in the agricultural industry. Though it's a 20+ year old look at the situation, I am sure much of it remains true. The work these people do is hard work that pays poorly so that we can enjoy lower priced fruits and vegetabl......more

To call Conover's project "undercover" is a little misleading, since as a white, blond American he can't exactly pass for Mexican, nor does he try. What he does do is insinuate himself into a group of migrant workers and document their experience. He works the orchards in Arizona, visits their Mexic......more