# The Dreamer

**Author:** Pam Muñoz Ryan
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 386
**ISBN-13:** `9780439269704`
**ISBN-10:** `0439269709`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-dreamer
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.

## Where this book is assigned

### Pura Belpré Author Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)

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