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Muñoz Ryan has written over forty books for young people, including picture books, early readers, middle grade, and young adult novels. She has been the author recipient of the NEA 's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature, and the Ludington Award for her body of work.
Esperanza Rising is a young adult historical fiction novel written by Mexican-American author Pam Muñoz Ryan and released by Scholastic Press on 27 March 2000. [1] The novel focuses on Esperanza, the only daughter of wealthy Mexican parents, and follows the events that occur after her father's murder.
Echo is a middle grade historical fiction novel written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Dinara Mirtalipova, and published by Scholastic Press in 2015. It is set in Germany and America, primarily in the years leading up to World War II and details how a mysterious harmonica and the music it makes ties together the lives of three children: Friedrich Schmidt, an intern at the Hohner factory ...
Becoming Naomi León is a 2005 fiction, adventure, and young author's 246 page coming of age novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan about a quiet Latina girl, whose life with her great-grandmother and younger brother is peaceful, until her mother reappears after abandoning her and her brother years earlier.
In 1999, Pam Muñoz Ryan wrote a fictionalized biography of Parkhurst's life for children, titled Riding Freedom. It is illustrated by Brian Selznick. [19] In 2008, Fern J. Hill wrote a fictional memoir based on Parkhurst's life, Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst. [20]
A Texas duo has been arrested in connection to a $1 million theft from a Texas Walmart. The suspects of the large-scale theft operation – Ryan Munoz and Carmelo Amigleo, both 18 years old, of ...
In the words of one publication, Leslie Abramson was a “4-ft-11, fire-eating, mud-slinging, nuclear-strength pain in the legal butt.”
Ryan Lochte's 3 kids with wife Kayla Rae Reid Reid and Lochte became parents for the first time when son Caiden Zane Lochte arrived on June 8, 2017. View this post on Instagram