Paint the Wind
What's Paint the Wind About
A sheltered girl. A wild horse. An unforgettable journey.Paint the Wind joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Maya lives like a captive. At Grandmother’s house in California, everything is forbidden: friends, fun, even memories. And her life is built on lies: lies Grandmother tells her about her dead mother, lies Maya tells to impress or manipulate. But then she moves to the vast Wyoming wilderness where her mother’s family awaits – kind, rugged people who have no tolerance for lies. They challenge Maya to confront the truth about who she is. And a mysterious mustang called Artemisia waits, too. She holds the key to Maya’s freedom. But to find it, Maya will have to risk everything, including her life.
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Pam Muñoz Ryan is the recipient of the Newbery Honor Medal and the Kirkus Prize for her New York Times bestselling novel, Echo, as well as the NEA’s Human and Civil Rights Award and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature for her body of work. Her celebrated novels, Echo, Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Léon, and Paint the Wind, have received countless accolades, among them two Pura Belpré Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and two Américas Awards. Her acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride and When Marian Sang, both illustrated by Brian Selznick, and Tony Baloney, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, as well as a beginning reader series featuring Tony Baloney. Ryan lives near San Diego, California, with her family.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780545101769
- Publication Date
- February 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Scholastic Paperbacks
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 2007
- Page Count
- 352
- Word Count
- 40870
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 9 - 12 years
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 303579504
- Lexile® Level
- 780L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~S
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.3
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 6
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 116832
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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