Pam Munoz Ryan
Pam Munoz Ryan is an American author whose Echo won the Newbery Honor and Esperanza Rising became a required school reading staple. Her musicality and multilingual heritage inform her lyrical middle-grade novels about identity, belonging, and resilience.
Works
- Esperanza RisingHistorical novel about a girl rebuilding life after Mexican Revolution displacement
- EchoNovel connecting four children across different eras through music and migration
- Riding FreedomHistorical fiction about a girl raising horses and seeking freedom in frontier America
- When Marian SangPicture book biography of opera singer Marian Anderson breaking racial barriers
- The DreamerIllustrated biography of Mexican poet and muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros