Ryan, Pam Munoz

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.

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

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.

A little girl struggling to cope with her move to a new home finds help from her grandmother who shows her how to make a memory box.