![]() Sharing her protagonist's love of language, artistic sensibility and keen sensitivity, Ryan creates a tender tale about family love and loyalty. ![]() On her top lip." And the heroine's skill with carving connects her to her father long before they finally meet. It was the exact same color as her hair and went up and down in a perfect rounded M Through Naomi's first-person narration, the author gently captures the girl's simultaneous attraction to and wariness of her mother with Naomi's first impression: "I couldn't take my eyes off her lipstick. ) crystallizes the essence of settings and characters through potent, economic prose. Feisty Gram takes action: she and Fabiola and her husband, who hail from Oaxaca City, Mexico, and who knew the children's father, take the children and embark on an odyssey of sorts, in search of their father at Oaxaca's annual radish-carving festival. Was going to mess up their 744 nights-in-a-row record," Naomi thinks. ![]() "What locked the possibility of catastrophe in my mind, was that Gram and Fabiola were going to miss Wheel of Fortune When the children's mother, Skyla, makes a sudden reappearance, she wants Naomi to leave Gram and Owen to move to Las Vegas-and Gram fears that Skyla and her new boyfriend have ulterior motives. ![]() ![]() She has written numerous novels, picture books, and early readers for young people. Ryan is an American author of Mexican descent whose other works include Echo (a 2016 Newbery Honor Book), and Esperanza Rising. Fifth-grader Naomi's great-grandmother has been a loving guardian for Naomi and Owen, her handicapped brother, since their mother divorced their father and abandoned them in Lemon Tree, Calif., seven years before. Becoming Naomi Len is Pam Muoz Ryan’s third novel. ![]()
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