Ryan, Pam Munoz

Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphange for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stables.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LICE OF MARIAN ANDERSON, EXTRAORDINARY SINGER AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PERFORM AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, WHOSE LIFE AND CAREER ENCOURAGED SOCIAL CHANGE.

An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely read poets in the world.

An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican form workers on the eve of Great Depression.