Kamila is a 9-year-old girl living with her parents in a little blue house in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Their life is simple and easy.  Both of her parents work and she attends school nearby. The family is very close, especially given that Kamila’s abuela, whom she loves dearly, lives just blocks away. Life goes along at a beautiful pace, as it does on the island, until a family matter in Connecticut requires Kamila’s mom, Stefany,  to travel there to spend a few weeks helping her sister recover from surgery. Though Stefany’s absence is an upset to regular life for the family, the situation is further intensified by the impending arrival of Hurricane Maria, the storm that decimated many islands in the Caribbean. Learn how this family prepares for the coming of the storm and deals with its aftermath. Through these experiences, some of which are tremendous losses, Kamila gains knowledge of what it means to be boricua (Puerto Rican), both as a daughter of the island and in spirit.

Specifications

• 64 pages of text
• written in present tense
• written in 1st person singular
• story is told from the alternating perspectives of the two main characters
• Spanish with several Latin-American characteristics
• setting: Puerto Rico and Connecticut (US)
  
  

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