Paint The Wind Review
The book, Paint The Wind, by Pam Munoz Ryan, is about a girl, Maya, who has been living with her no-nonsense Grandmother (on her dad’s side) since both of her parents died in a car accident. She is practically imprisoned by her Grandma who absolutely hates Maya’s dead mom. She bars anything with any relation to her mom from the house.
Maya yearns to learn more of her mother, and the horses that her mom deeply loved. When her grandma dies a sudden death, Maya is sent to live with the family from her mothers side. Her grandma had always called them dirty hillbillies and that’s why she never took Maya to see them.
Maya learns that almost everything her grandma taught her was wrong. She learns to understand other people, like her cuz in Payton who acts very annoying but when she gets to know him she realizes now nice he is. She learns to love her Grandpa Moose, Uncle Fig, and Aunt Vi. And she learn to trust Artamasia, her moms horse. When the horse and get caught in a storm and are forced to live in wilderness they bond like glue.
Maya learns to be a better person and she learns a big lesson in life, to live a little.
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ISBN: 054510176X |
Paint The Wind (9780545101769): Pam Munoz Ryan: Books
