A series of color-illustrated poems in English and Spanish that tell the story of a boy's move with his father from war-torn El Salvador to the Mission District of San Francisco.
Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.
A bilingual story in English and Spanish in which a young Mexican-American girl named Prietita becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman.