Alma Flor Ada offers young readers a series of engaging, charming, and often deeply moving stories from her childhood growing up in Cuba. And what knits all the stories together is a profound sense of family values and the fact that it is the relationships we cherish as children and the formative experiences of both joy and tragedy that make us who we are today. Whether describing the tragic death of a beloved uncle who could not be dissuaded from his love of flying, to revealing the secret of a mysterious uncle who quietly decided to dedicate his medical career to treating lepers, each story encourages young readers of any background to look at their own lives and to find the stories that lie within.
