Home at Last
Grade 1-3-A story about new beginnings. The Pati-o family relocates  from Mexico and must adjust to all the changes that living in  the U.S. brings. Ana starts school, her father finds work with  Uncle Luis in the canning factory, but her mother has a more  difficult time with the transition. It is only after one of her  children becomes ill that Mam  is willing to learn the new  language. The text contains Spanish questions and phrases that  are repeated in English. The oil paintings support the text and  show Ana's adjustment as well as her mother's unhappiness. The  characters' growth and new experiences show how a family pulls  together and makes its new surroundings "home."-Diane Milliken,  Las Brisas Elementary School, Phoenix, AZCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.