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By Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza Rising is by Pam Munoz Ryan and is an historical fiction story about a girl named Esperanza. Pam Munoz Ryan uses lots of descriptive language. For instance when Esperanza kneels down the author writes, “Like a caterpillar, she slowly inched flat next to him, their faces looking at each other” (page 2). Her style is also fantastic. For example, on page 160 there is a wonderful paragraph describing Esperanza’s stitches. “The mountains and valleys in the blanket were easy. But as soon as she reached a mountain, she was headed back down into a valley again.”
Esperanza is rich and lives in Mexico, but when she suffers loss in her family it is hard to get enough money to support their family. Esperanza helps her family through their hard times by working. This is not only descriptive but the book shows the historical research of the author. For example, they cannot afford the expensive train tickets so they all sit a really dirty car with poor people, which is a big change for Esperanza and her family (page 67).
I think that this book is an amazingly written story and you should definitely read it!

My Journey to America is about a lady named Silvia. She lived an Ecuador, a country near the Equator. Ecuador is in South America. When she was twenty-three she left Ecuador and went to America because she wanted to get a better job for her family. Silvia left her family members and her two-year-old son behind. In America she and her sister were both illegal immigrants. The first time she went back to her old home in Ecuador it was twelve years after went to America. This was a very sad for her family but it was especially sad for her. If you think that this book sounds good then you should definitely read it.