Esperanza Ortega  Muñoz,
aproximately 19 years old.

Pam Muñoz Ryan's great-grandfather, Sixto Ortega, with his two sisters who were nuns in a convent near Aguascalientes, Mexico.		Pam Muñoz Ryan's grandparents, Esperanza Ortega Muñoz (age 16) and Jesus Muñoz, on their wedding day. The character of Miguel in Esperanza Rising was based on Jesus Muñoz.

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