"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
When thirteen-year-old Luz and her family move from Chicago to her stepfather's native home of Puerto Rico, she and her brother Rome struggle to adjust and to decide where it is they really belong.
Eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, living in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s, finds herself torn between wanting to grow up and longing to be treated like a child, yearning for independence and needing the comfort of home.
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.