Pam Muñoz Ryan
1) Echo
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Historical Fiction - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Historical Fiction - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tony Baloney wants to be the star of the Halloween parade at school. Find out what happens when his creative costume idea doesn?t quite go as planned.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Maya is held captive in her grandmothers house in California but her imagination runs wild in Wyoming with a horse called Artemisia and the memory of her mother.
6) Mañanaland
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
7) The dreamer
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
8) Tony Baloney
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tony, a macaroni penguin, is a middle child with very exasperating siblings, and although he never looks for trouble, it often finds him.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.