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by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Author)
The highly anticipated new novel from the Pura Belpre and Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author of ESPERANZA RISING now in Spanish.
Naomi Soledad Le n Outlaw ha tenido que enfrentarse a mucho en su corta vida, empezando por su nombre. Tambi n est el problema de su ropa (hechas por su abuela en tela de poli ster), su timidez y la fama que tiene en la escuela de no ser nadie especial. Pero seg n su abuela, la mayor a de los problemas se solucionan con mentalidad positiva. Y su vida, junto a su abuela y su peque o hermano, Owen, en el parque de casas m viles Avocado Acres, es tranquila y feliz... hasta que su mam aparece luego de siete a os, creando confusi n y retando a Naomi a que averig e qui n es.Author Biography
Pam Muñoz Ryan is the recipient of the Newbery Honor Medal and the Kirkus Prize for her New York Times bestselling novel, Echo, as well as the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature for her body of work. Her celebrated novels, Echo, Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Léon, and Paint the Wind, have received countless accolades, among them two Pura Belpré Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and two Américas Awards. Her acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride and 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. Ryan lives near San Diego, California, with her family.
