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Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan










Ryan’s sure-handed storytelling and affection for her characters convey a clear sense of Naomi’s triumph, as she becomes “who I was meant to be.” (Fiction. Naomi’s matter-of-fact narrative is suffused with her worries and hopes, along with her protective love for her brother and great-grandmother. The annual December radish-carving festival gives Naomi’s creativity a chance to shine and makes the perfect setting for a reunion. Here they are immersed in a world of warmth and friendship, where Naomi’s longing to meet the father she dimly remembers intensifies. With friends’ help, Gram takes the children to Oaxaca City to find their father and gain his support in her custody appeal. The troubled young woman’s difficulties threaten to overturn the security Gram has worked to provide for Naomi and Owen. The unexpected arrival of Naomi’s long-absent mother throws everything off balance. Naomi, a soft-voiced list-maker and word-collector, is also a gifted soap-carver-something inherited, it turns out, from the Mexican father from whom she and Owen were separated as small children. When she finished her graduate program, she became interested in writing, and at the encouragement of her agent, Kendra Marcus, included her family name, Muñoz, to her signature, to reflect her Mexican heritage.First-person narrator Naomi León Outlaw and her bright, physically lopsided little brother Owen feel safe in the routines of life in Lemon Grove, California, with great-grandmother Gram. After her four children were born, she became the director of an early childhood program and went back to school to get her master’s degree in Post-secondary Education with the intention of teaching Children’s Literature in college. An early childhood teacher, she worked for the Escondido, California, school district for three years before starting her family.

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

She then attended San Diego State University where she received a bachelor’s degree. High, Bakersfield High School, and Bakersfield Community College. As Pamela Bell, she attended McKinley Elementary, Longfellow Elementary, Washington Jr.

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Lifeīorn Pamela Jeanne Banducci in Bakersfield, California, on December 25, 1951, her last name was changed before she attended school to match the name of her parents, Hope Bell and the man she considered her real father, Donald Bell. including The Goodman in Chicago, and the Majestic Cutler Theater, in Boston.

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Her novel, Esperanza Rising, was commissioned as a play by the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre and has been performed in many venues around the U.S. She the author recipient of the NEA’s Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, and the Ludington Award for body of work. She has written over forty books for young people-picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. She is half Mexican with Basque, Italian, and Oklahoman cultural influences.












Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan