Pam Muñoz Ryan

Just before her quinceañera, Solimar leaves her father's palace in the kingdom of San Gregorio to watch the migrating monarch butterflies who settle in the nearby mountains. When she sits among them, they soon settle on her cloak and give her a special gift to predict the future and the solemn duty to protect them. Then, while her father and her brother are away, a neighboring king invades and takes village and palace members hostage. Now Solimar...

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.

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.

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

When his school celebrates Pen Pal Month, Tony and his pen pal have so much in common that Tony considers his new pal the long-lost brother he always wanted, but when the day arrives to meet his new friend, Tony is in for a big surprise.

Young Maya lives a lonely life in her grandmother's house in California, but things soon change for Maya when she discovers that Artemisia, a wild horse in Wyoming, holds the key to her memories of her mother.

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.

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean 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.

A fictionalized biography of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who grew up as a painfully shy child ridiculed by his overbearing father.