Esperanza rising by pam muñoz ryan5/27/2023 ![]() As Pamela Bell, she attended McKinley Elementary, Longfellow Elementary, Washington Jr. Many of her stories reflect her half-Mexican heritage.īorn Pamela Jeanne Banducci in Bakersfield, California, on December 25, 1951, her last name was changed before she attended school to match the name of her parents, Hope Bell and the man she considered her father, Donald Bell. 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. Other selected honors include the PEN USA Award, the Américas Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, and the Orbis Pictus Award. including The Goodman in Chicago, and the Majestic Cutler Theater, in Boston. Her novel, Esperanza Rising, was commissioned as a play by the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre and has been performed in many venues around the U.S. 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. She has written over forty books, including the novels ESPERANZA RISING, BECOMING NAOMI LEÓN, RIDING FREEDOM, PAINT THE WIND, THE DREAMER, ECHO, and Mañanaland. ![]() She is the author of ECHO, a Newbery Honor book and the recipient of the Kirkus Prize. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. ![]() ![]() Pam Muñoz Ryan is an American author and the 2018 U.S. ![]()
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