continuacio?n de Cajas de carto?n y Senderos fronterizos
Jimenez, Francisco
During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico.
During a weekend trip to Ocracoke Island, siblings Judy and Stink Moody take part in a pirate treasure-hunting game, in which various clues lead them to silver coins, or "pieces of eight," hidden across the island.
Colorful illustrations and text written in both English and Spanish tell a story about a young girl named Mimi, who was disappointed because she couldn't spend Christmas with her family in Puerto Rico, so her classmates prepared a little surprise for her.