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Home at Last

Review
By School Library Journal

A story about new beginnings. The Patino 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 Mamí 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’.