Podcast appearances and mentions of pam munoz ryan

A children's book that is so relevant. Today we are talking about Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. This book is about a young girl immigrating to California from Mexico during the Great Depression and yeah it's historical fiction but like damn is it real.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/book-cult--5718878/support.

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: utilizing AI and getting back into the library swing of things Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: our most huggable books The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  1:29 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 4:01 - Lake Travis Community Library 5:52 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 7:01 - Our Current Reads 7:22 - The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao (Kaytee) 7:35 - The King's English Bookshop 9:28 - The Change by Kirsten Miller 10:21 - The Unrelenting Earth by Kritika H. Rao 11:15 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Meredith) 13:00 - @thewilltoread on Instagram 15:54 - The Stand by Stephen King 17:13 - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee) 19:14 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukamatathil 21:25 - The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (Meredith) 22:35 - Final Girls by Riley Sager 24:37 - Currently Reading Patreon 25:22 - Faebound by Saara El-Arifi (Kaytee) 25:32 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory 29:16 - Fairyloot 31:26 - We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer (Meredith) 35:31 - @booktalketc on Instagram 35:32 - Book Talk, Etc podcast 37:32 - Deep Dive: Our Most Huggable Books 38:28 - All The Only People by Mike Gayle 38:29 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 38:30 - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 39:12 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booey 39:25 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 39:51 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 40:05 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 40:36 - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart 40:38 - Charlotte's Web by E.B White 41:18 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan 41:28 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili 41:53 - Babel by R.F. Kuang 42:35 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 42:29 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 42:56 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 43:28 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan 43:56 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 44:14 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley 45:06 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker 45:19 - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 45:46 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 46:03 - Happy Place by Emily Henry 46:29 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 46:32 - Matrix by Lauren Groff 48:48 - Meet Us At The Fountain 48:55 - I wish that we always live in a world where women are celebrated (Kaytee) 56:37 - I wish everyone would try a book flight (Meredith) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August's IPL comes to us from The King's English Bookshop in Utah! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

This week's guest, Pam Munoz Ryan, is the author of books like Echo, Esperanza Rising, and Solimar, and we're so excited that she was willing to add "guest on Withywindle" to her biography. And, of course, we also have all the usual segments, so click that play button and get ready for plenty of nonsense! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Show Notes We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are going back to  school!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.   Literally Reading: Birds of California by Katie Cotugno (Traci) The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Ellie) Open the Book:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank  The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson  Our Town by Thorton Wilder  The Crucible by Arthur Miller   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding  The Giver by Lois Lowry The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgereald  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan  Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan El Deafo by Cece Bell  Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Episode 1 Show Notes SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! E-mail your stories, pictures, or questions to thekidventurespodcast@gmail.com! (Parents, we'll send you a release waiver if you would like submit your child's content) FEATURED STORYTELLER *Christian* from Nashville, TN! MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY SERIES The Timepiece on Amazon – get it for just $0.99! WHAT ARE YOU READING – PAM MUNOZ RYAN Nick and RaeAnna discuss books by Pam Munoz Ryan. Esperanza Rising is a great book for middle grade historical fiction about a migrant farming family in California. Family relationships, bullying, and other relatable situations are developed in this beautiful story. Visit Pam Munoz Ryan's website here and learn more about how she became an author! GAMER JACK AND THE BANANA HACK Would you like to draw a picture of what you think Jack or Fred looks like? Draw us a picture and send it to thekidventurespodcast@gmail.com or share on FB or IG and tag us! Did you know bananas and humans share 40-60% of the same DNA proteins? Read the explanation here! WRITING TIPS FOR KIDS Free six video video series on YouTube! Subscribe and watch here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KIDVENTURESpodcast JOIN OUR PATREON COMMUNITY https://www.patreon.com/kidventurespod $3 a month gives you early access to podcasts and member only discussions! $5 a month gives you early access to podcasts, membership discussions, and a monthly video call where Nick and RaeAnna talk about the episode, homeschool, faith, life, and answer your questions! $10 a month gives you all of the exclusive offers above AND you get a printed newsletter in the mail with kid created art, poems, story ideas, and more! Music and Effects by Epidemicsound.com

Join Alyssa and Melissa as they discuss their favorite (and not so favorite) books, movies, and shows! Titles: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Baby-Sitter's Club by Ann Martin, Birdcage, The Crown, The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeny, Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeny, JD Robb novels, Public Secrets by Nora Roberts, self-help, true crime, Adnan's Story by Rabia Chaudry, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, cookbooks, We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan Higgins, Pajama Time by Sandra Boynton, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, The Selection by Kiera Cass, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, The Office, The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak, Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jenn Mann, The Office: the untold story of the greatest sitcom of the 2000's by Andy Greene and more

In "Becoming Naomi Leon," author Pam Munoz Ryan writes a children's novel about a young girl named Naomi who carries her great grandma's positive thinking to overcome many challenges, including trying to discover who she really is when her mother reappears after being absent for many years. This discussion took place on a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California.

In this edition of the Next Reads podcast, Erin reads the first chapter of Gussy, by Jimmy Cajoleas. Read-alikes include: The Girl who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu Hello Universe by Erin Kelly A Tale Dark and Grim by Adam Gidwitz Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

In this episode, Youth Services Director Sarah Rehborg talks about her dislike of Fifty Shades of Gray, makes a confession about the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and gets excited about the Winter Wonderland Walk. Sarah's audiobook recommendation: Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (available on Libby)

Hosts Lesley Nickelson and Debbie Sewell talk to Chari Kauffman, the chairman of the Spirit of Texas Reading Committee to find out more about the program and how it helps librarians. Programming resources are available on the TLA website. In this episode we talk about We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal, and Starfish by Lisa Fipps, An Occasionally Happy Family by Cliff Burke and American Royals by Katharine McGee In our lightning we quickly book talk Schooled by Gordon Korman, Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo and Fable by Adrienne Young.

Travel to Mexico and California in this historical tale.

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In this episode, the first page of three Middle Grade books will be read:Milky Way Railroad by Kenji MiyazawaEsperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, andA Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

In this episode of the People and Their Work Podcast we will hear from Pam Munoz Ryan a New York Times Best Selling Author of Young Adult Fiction Novels. She has written and published over 40 books. She grew up in Bakersfield California loving books and currently resides in San Diego California. This podcast was recorded at the Utah Valley University Love of Reading Conference. https://www.pammunozryan.com/ or https://www.uvu.edu/education/engaged-reading/ftlr/ The People and Their Work Podcast was created by Doug Gardner Associate Professor in the Student Leadership and Success Studies department at Utah Valley University.

A report on the great story of Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. By Alex Whitman, Anirudh Sengupta, Maddelyn Vechnak, and Charlotte Crosby --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-whitman/message

Kaytee and Meredith are back into their routine after some guests and a big shake-up, and we’re excited to be here! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: moving and the big changes it brings, a #bookstagram challenge. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. This week is going to feel a little different for a number of reasons. Take a listen to hear about 2 books Kaytee read recently and then we’ll talk about what’s happening with Meredith’s reading life. We’ll move on to a short Slow But Steady update from each of us, with a funny update from a couple listeners. For our deep dive this week, we are checking out the eleventh category of the #readerstatus side of the Currently Reading Challenge, books by authors from other countries. We have a lot of great authors here and we know you’ll have a bunch to add to our list! Finally, this week, we are Bellying Up to the Book Bar with listener Jami Dabbs. She loves “stories well-told with characters you can sink your teeth into” and we think we’ve got some great recs for her. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . 2:35 - Currently Reading Challenge 3:55 - Book People in Austin, TX 4:36 - Fabled Book Shop in Waco, TX 5:08 - Texas Book Festival 5:33 - #book10gram challenge with @howjessreads 5:38 - Jessica Howard on Episode 3 of Season 2 9:36 - After the Flood by Kassandra Montag 13:32 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger 13:40- Episode 31 of Ten Things to Tell You 15:41 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 18:09 - A Better Man by Louise Penny 29:23 - Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny 29:33 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan 31:38 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry 31:59 - Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery 32:02 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 33:05 - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 33:13 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 33:14 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 34:11 - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast 34:25 - Harry Potter series by JK Rowling 35:37 - Currently Reading Challenge 36:18 - Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia 36:44 - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 37:20 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris 38:10 - A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 38:36 - Frederick Backman (Beartown, A Man Called Ove, etc) 38:54 - Stieg Larsson Millennium Series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) 39:14 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, We Should All Be Feminists, etc) 39:29 - Abraham Verghese - Cutting for Stone 39:33 - Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner, And The Mountains Echoed 39:57 - Alexander McCall Smith - The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency 40:26 - John Boyne - The Heart’s Invisible Furies 40:54 - Junot Diaz - The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 41:06 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude 41:11 - Jose Saramago - Blindness 41:30 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 41:31 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 41:32 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 41:35 - Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, etc) 41:36 - Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, etc) 42:44 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 42:47 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 42:51 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter 42:53 - The Dry by Jane Harper 42:54 - Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand 42:56 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet 43:01 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 43:03 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling 43:56 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 44:04 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 44:20 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 44:38 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 45:46 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 44:49 - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes 44:55 - The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak 45:36 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 45:52 - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams 46:27 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 46:39 - The Current by Tim Johnston 47:07 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 47:33 - North and South by John Jakes 47:56 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 48:08 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck 48:43 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 48:50 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson 49:10 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage 49:26 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Today I read Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan.

For young adult novelist Pam Muñoz Ryan, a multi-cultural perspective comes naturally. She grew up in Bakersfield, California, with her grandmother who was an Oklahoma pioneer woman moving in as she grew older, and a big extended family nearby anchored by her other grandmother, Esperanza, who was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Muñoz Ryan based her novel Esperanza Rising on her Mexican grandmother’s life, and it’s become a classic of young people’s literature—taught in schools and beloved in homes throughout the country. She has written over 40 books, and she casts a wide net in terms of subjects: from the childhood of Pablo Neruda in The Dreamer, to a young kid living in a trailer in Oklahoma in Becoming Naomi Leon, to the magical realism of Echo in which three young people in pre-World War II Germany and post-Pearl Harbor America are connected by an enchanted harmonica. But whatever the topic, Muñoz Ryan knows how to write for young people; her respect for them and the way they move in the world is enormous, and it’s reflected in her writing. (She has the awards to prove it; it’s a staggering list!) In this episode of the podcast, Muñoz Ryan talks about her upbringing, learning the histories of both her grandmothers, her writing in general and writing for young readers in particular. She’s fun, thoughtful, and full of stories.

In this episode I review some of the major themes and ideas conveyed in the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan.

Happy First Chapter Friday! Today I am reading the first chapter of Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. This book has some great historical connections to the Mexican Revolution, Dust Bowl, and Great Depression, and some current connections to immigration and prejudice.

Amanda and Jenn discuss audiobooks for the whole family, high-stakes sci-fi, experimental fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks, Wicked Fox by Kat Cho, and Kingdom of Exiles by Maxim M. Martineau. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. Feedback Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (rec’d by Miranda) American Fire by Monica Hesse (rec’d by Miranda) Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman (rec’d by Miranda) Questions 1. Hey guys! So in a few weeks I’m getting married (yay!!!) and then honeymooning in Mexico. I’m looking for some good recommendations to read while at the beach. I’m a therapist and work mostly with adolescents so I’m always looking for novels with adolescent protagonists to better understand my clients. I would love to hear your recommendations for YA fiction. Bonus points for a book series and for having a romance subplot. Some YA books I’ve liked in the past are Little Fires Everywhere, Hunger Games series and the Selection. I’ve already read To All The Boys I’ve Loved before and don’t love the writing style (but loved the movie). Please no John Green. Thanks so much! –Emily 2. My husband’s birthday is in August and I’d love to get him a book this year. He’s not as big a reader as I am, but he enjoys it when the right book grabs him. Ready Player One and The Martian were two books that immediately struck me when I read them as being tailor-made for him, and he loved them both (back before either of them were movies). I next tried 11/22/63, because I thought he’d appreciate the interesting take on time travel. It took him over a year to finally get through because it just didn’t have that same gotta-read-it-NOW energy (though he assures me that he did enjoy it). I haven’t gifted him a book in a few years, since I haven’t found anything else that screamed “he needs to read this.” My own reading has slowed down quite a bit since we had kids, so the chances of my stumbling across his next RPO/Martian are slimmer than ever, and I’m hoping you can help me. In addition to the ones I mentioned, some of his favorite books are LOTR, the Eragon series, the Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow series, White Fang, and Call of the Wild. Thanks, love the show! –Charlie 3. Hi Jenn and Amanda! Long time listener to the podcast here. I love your show, though it has roughly doubled my TBR, so thanks for that. Lol My family is taking an epic Western road trip for two and a half weeks in July, driving from Ohio to Montana and Wyoming to visit Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, as well as some smaller parks and sites along the way. I would love a recommendation for an audiobook that we could listen to together to keep kids off of personal technology for at least some of the trip. We haven’t really listened to audiobooks as a family before, and I’m running into some challenges in trying to choose. I am easy—read everything and anything. My husband typically prefers non-fiction, but could be flexible. My son is almost 13 and likes Science and history, both fiction and nonfiction. He does NOT enjoy most fantasy. My daughter is 9 and prefers fiction. She has a VERY active imagination and is easily scared by creepy things—for example, Harry Potter is too scary. Can you please help us find something fun to listen to that will get us all on the same page, so to speak, as we spend many hours together in the car? I’m not having success finding something that scratched everyone’s particular itch, but is still engaging and fun to listen to. –Erica 4. Hi Ladies! I love the podcast and am hoping you can help me out. I have two kids, an 8 year old boy and a 10 year old girl. When they were little, I used to read to them every night before bed but as they got older we stopped and I missed it. Recently I convinced them to start reading together again and for our first book I picked Refugee by Alan Gratz which has been good but intense and sad. Could you give us some suggestions for our next book? We’d like something more light hearted and fun. They’ve both read the Harry Potter books through book 5 and my son has read all the Land of Stories books. My daughter suggested Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan or Mr. Limoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein but she’s already read both of those and I’d like to read something new to all of us. Thanks for your help! —Heather 5. Over the last year I have slowly succeeded in turning my husband into a reader, now he wants to read books together. Last month we read Where The Crawdads Sing, it was his pick. It was a great experience, but now we are stuck trying to find a second book. He has suggested Educated or A Serial Killer’s Daughter, however, I am in my last semester of law school and already spend all day reading about tragedy and humans being horrible to other humans, I just cannot handle the tough stuff at the moment. I’ve tried to suggest a Bill Bryson book (he loved the adaptation of A Walk in the Woods) or some food micro histories (he is a major foodie) but he has turned them all down. His taste in books seems to be evolving rapidly and I am out of ideas. I’ll read anything that isn’t particularly emotionally taxing (Crawdads was in the grey area). Thanks for any help you can provide! In the last year he has read: Stephen King, Michael Crichton, The Martian, Ready Player One, World War Z, the Game of Thrones series, and a David Attenborough memoir. –Michelle 6. Hello! I adore books where the language usage or the writing format is as important to the story as the story itself. Books I’ve loved are The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (where the author writes in his version of Middle English), Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (where the story is told through letters by people who aren’t allowed to use certain letters of the alphabet), and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (where the novel is about a poem but the actual story is told primarily through the footnotes of the poem analysis). I’ll read any genre or subject matter, but please don’t recommend S. by JJ Abrams because that’s already on my shortlist TBR, or Finnegan’s Wake because I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to attempt it.

"Esperanza Rising" is a riches to rags tale about a wealthy Mexican family who end up as farmworkers in California's Central Valley. Students from Murch Elementary School in Washington, DC compare the book to Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess." Actress Christine Avila is celebrity reader. Writer Pam Munoz Ryan talks about her real-life grandmother whose life inspired the book. Kitty Felde is host. 

Hola, welcome to a special episode of Yo, Teach! - Esperanza Podding. Today the students in Rm. 40 dusted off the studio to talk about our Novel Study, Esperanza Rising , by Pam Munoz Ryan. The students explore Mexican American history as it relates to our novel, specifically questions about Mexican Repatriation and how Mexican laborers were treated in the 1930s. Enjoy! 1. Use your own words to explain the Mexican Repatriation. 2. Why did the Mexican Repatriation occur? 3. What happened to the people who were sent to Mexico? How were they treated? Why were they treated this way? 4. Even though approximately 60% of the people who were sent to Mexico were U.S. citizens, they were not allowed back into the U.S. Why?

Esperanza Rising By Pam Munoz Ryan Esperanza’s life it torn apart after her father is killed and she and her mother must flee from Mexico with little money. Esperanza was used to a life of plenty, but suddenly she is thrown into a new world in America and is forced to work for all she needs as a migrant worker. Esperanza begins to wonder if she can ever be happy in this new life.Recommended for grades 6 and up.

Opens up worlds of complications and riches.

Pam Muñoz Ryan, the celebrated and critically acclaimed author of Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, and Riding Freedom, among many others, joins us in the studio today with her editor, Tracy Mack, to talk about her writing process, the genesis of her latest New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor novel, Echo, and why so many of her novels contain themes of social justice. Additional Resources:More about EchoPam Muñoz Ryan on TwitterPam Muñoz Ryan's websiteAbout Echo:Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.Guests:Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Echo, as well as the recipient of the Kirkus Prize, the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature. She has written more than thirty books for young readers. Her celebrated novels, Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Léon, Paint the Wind, and The Dreamer, have received numerous accolades, among them two Pura Belpré Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award. Ryan's acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Rideand When Marian Sang, both illustrated by Brian Selznick, and Tony Baloney, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, as well as a beginning reader series featuring Tony Baloney. Kirkus Reviews described Echo as "a grand narrative that examines the power of music to inspire beauty in a world overrun with fear and intolerance." Ryan lives near San Diego, California with her family. You can visit her at pammunozryan.com.Tracy Mack is a vice president and publisher at Scholastic, and Pam Muñoz Ryan's editor.Special thanks:Music composed by Lucas Elliot EberlSound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan and Christopher JohnsonProduced by Emily Morrow

Esperanza thought she’d always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico–she’d always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn’t ready for the hard labor, financial struggles, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances–Mama’s life, and her own, depend on it. In this episode, Cara and I chat about, "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan.  I feel like Sanda Sherdin, a listener said in the hangout sums up everything we loved about the book: I really loved the perspective on the era, immigration, the struggle of migrant workers, and prejudices. Stories like this are huge at developing empathy for people in positions we otherwise wouldn't even know how to imagine. More than anything though, I loved the identity story. Esperanza first found her identity in her father, her status, and her pretty things. When those were sadly and undeservedly stripped away, she began to learn and reveal who she really was all along: a beautiful girl, inside and out, full of fight and hope! She discovered and revealed that her richness had nothing to do with her circumstances after all.   We both loved the change of pace with choosing a middle grade book and we found so many parallels between Esperanza's story and many people in our country who are either undocumented or navigating an immigration system that's full of gaps.  We both felt so energized to learn and explore the ways we can seek shalom for the foreigner.  So next week, I've invited my friend,  Sarah Quezada, the author of A Life with Subtitles to share tell her story of falling in love with a man who is an undocumented worker. We also give an announcement that we're changing our summer books.  We're still reading, "Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God" by Lauren Winner, but we're changing the July and August books.  We hope you pop over to the hangout and share your thoughts on  Shalom Sista Hangout  and to get the skinny on the new books we've chosen for July and August. Grab your copy of, "Wearing God" and join us next month. Also, have you downloaded your FREE #SummerofShalom Guide yet?  No?  Well you can do that here. Shalom My Sistas, Osheta                              

Today on 30 Minutes we feature a panel from the Pima County Public Library Nuestras Raices Pavillion at the 2015…

Discover adventures about siblings--both human and animal. Listen in as Emily chats with Pam Munoz Ryan, author of Tony Baloney, about being "Boss of the World" during her childhood.