Five-year-old Gabriella and her parents flee Fidel’s tumultuous Cuba for a new place called the Bronx. It isn’t warm like Havana, and there is traffic–not the ocean–outside her window. Their…

Originally published in 2007 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers as Angela and the Baby Jesus –Title page verso.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes…

Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty’s light shines for all.

When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita. It may be small, but they soon prove that there’s room…