The Quiet Place

The Quiet PlaceWhen Isabel and her family move to the United States, Isabel misses all the things she left behind in Mexico, especially her aunt Lupita and hearing people speak Spanish. But she also experiences some wonderful new things her first snow storm and a teacher who does not speak Spanish but has a big smile. Even better, Papa and her brother Chavo help her turn a big box into her own quiet place, where she keeps her books and toys and writes letters to

The story reads like poetry

my tummy felt tight

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one of the world's biggest and brightest holidays

• 2011 Connecticut Book Award short-listed

takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look

and Alejandra’s family cares for Parker after school while her mother works

where Belle’s family is from

as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson

they COULD but they DON'T

intimate interpretation

every image resonates with the reader as the brutal story unfolds