![]() ![]() At 592 pages, the book is another ambitious leap for Ryan, who is best known for “Esperanza Rising,” an immigrant tale published 15 years ago and still taught, sometimes controversially, in schools across the country. ![]() It blossomed into “Echo,” a novel for middle-grade students that comes out Tuesday. The novella about desegregation would have to wait. “You know, during the big harmonica-band movement in the United States.” “Oh, that was our elementary school harmonica band,” the docent said. ![]() She and a docent were leafing through class photographs when they came across a picture of kids sitting on school steps holding harmonicas. Pam Muñoz Ryan, the Encinitas author of more than 30 books for children, knows a good story when she sees it, even if it’s not the one she’s looking for.Ībout six years ago, she was at the Lemon Grove Historical Society, researching what she thought was going to be her next project: A novella about a 1931 court case, the first successful school desegregation lawsuit in the United States. ![]()
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