In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
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Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 School Library Journal, May 2010 Publisher's Weekly, May 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2010 Teacher Librarian, April 2011 Kirkus Review, April 2010 Library Media Connection, August 2010 Wilson's Junior High School School Library Journal Publisher's Weekly
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