Pam Munoz Ryan

Nuestra California (Spanish)

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La premiada autora Pam Munoz Ryan celebra las maravillas de su tierra natal. Alegres poemas introducen las ciudades y regiones más grandes de California.

Nuestra California (Spanish)

Our California

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Award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan celebrates the wonders of her home state. Jaunty poems introduce California's major cities and regions.

Our California

Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

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Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.

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Lexile: 
750L
Length: 
04:45
Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

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Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in the mid-1800s and was expected to live her life without the freedoms she dreamed of. But Charlotte was smart and determined, and she figured out a way to live her life the way she wanted. She became an expert horse rider, a legendary stagecoach driver, and the first woman ever to vote - at a time when such things were outlawed for women.

Grade Level: 
Lexile: 
720L
Length: 
02:21
Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

Paint the Wind (Unabridged)

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A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother's house in California, she lives like a captive, tethered by Grandmother's rules: no talk of her mother, no friends, no foolishness of any kind...until a shocking event changes everything.

Grade Level: 
Lexile: 
780L
Length: 
05:02
Paint the Wind (Unabridged)

Becoming Naomi Leon (Unabridged)

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I always thought that the biggest trial in my life was my name, Naomi Guadalupe Zamora Outlaw, but little did I know that it was the least of my problems, or that someday I would live up to it.

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Lexile: 
830L
Length: 
04:17
Becoming Naomi Leon (Unabridged)

The Dreamer (Unabridged)

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Neftalí's father wants him to be a doctor. But Neftalí is not like other children. How he reconciles his own dreams with his father's is at the heart of this profoundly moving story of the life of poet Pablo Neruda.

Grade Level: 
Lexile: 
650L
Length: 
03:58
The Dreamer (Unabridged)