Ryan, Pam Munoz

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 farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.

Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

Rhyming text and illustrations use crayons of different colors to teach counting, first by even numbers and then by odd.

A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.

This book provides an introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, whose life and career encouraged social change.

A fictionalized account of the night Amelia Earhart flew Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C. in an airplane.

using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

Groups making up many different kinds of "families" introduce the numbers from one to ten and then by tens to one hundred. On board pages.