A review by jamiehandy
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

4.0

After quickly reading Paint the Wind, I remembered that this book was already on a bookshelf in the basement. I grabbed it and 2 hours later had finished it. Again, a very enjoyable book. 2 books by the same author in the same day and you start to notice some similarities. Each main character is "orphaned" -- in Paint the Wind the parents are dead. In this book the parents are not dead but have abandoned her. In Esperanza rising the father is murdered at the beginning but the mother is still there. All three books follow some migration that the main character must endure to grow. Despite the similarites, all three books have things that are unique to them and I would reccommend all 3. This book deals with some very hard topics -- an alcoholic mothers, a drug addict mother, and the desire all kids have to want their parents to love them.