Pam Muñoz Ryan has written over 40 books, including the novels ESPERANZA RISING, BECOMING NAOMI LEÓN, RIDING FREEDOM, PAINT THE WIND,  THE DREAMER and ECHO. She is the author recipient of the National Education Association’s Civil and Human Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for Multicultural Literature, and is twice the recipient of the Pura Belpré Medal and the Willa Cather Award.

Other selected honors include the PEN USA Award, the Américas Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and the Orbis Pictus Award. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, (formerly Pam Bell) holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from San Diego State University and lives near San Diego with her family.

Books by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Guys Read: Heroes & Villains

by Jon Scieszka, Christopher Healy, Sharon Creech, Cathy Camper, Laurie Halse Anderson, Ingrid Law, Deborah Hopkinson, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Eugene Yelchin, and Jack Gantos - Children's 8-12, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction, Short Stories

Echo

by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Children's, Fantasy, Fiction, Youth Fiction

The Dreamer

by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Children's, Fiction

Paint the Wind

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Becoming Naomi Leon

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Historical Fiction