Paint the wind
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.
| Main Author: | Ryan, Pam Muñoz. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Scholastic Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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. |
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| Physical Description: |
327 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Awards: |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-327). |
| ISBN: |
0439873622 (reinforced) : 9780439873628 (reinforced) : |
| Author Notes: |
She has written over twenty-five picture books, novels, and nonfiction books for young readers. The novel Esperanza Rising, winner of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, and the Americas Award Honor Book, is based on her own grandmother's immigration from Mexico to California. Riding Freedom has also won many awards including the national Willa Cather Award and the California Young Reader Medal. When Marian Sang, a picture book about singer Marian Anderson, won numerous awards including the ALA Sibert Honor and NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award. In 2015 her title Echo made The New York Times Best Seller List. She also won a Kirkus Prize in the children's literature category with her title 'Echo'. (Bowker Author Biography) |