When Christmas feels like home

By Gretchen Griffith

Subjects: Immigrant children, Vocabulary, Moving, household, fiction, Household Moving, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Expectation (Psychology), Christmas stories, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Spanish language, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, North carolina, fiction

Description: "After moving from a small village in Mexico to a town in the United States, Eduardo is sure it will never feel quite like home. The other children don't speak his language and they do not play fútbol. His family promises him that he will feel right at home by the time Christmas comes along, when "your words float like clouds from your mouth" and "trees will ride on cars." With whimsical imagery and a sprinkling of Spanish vocabulary, Gretchen Griffith takes readers on a multicultural journey with Eduardo who discovers the United States is not so different from Latin America and home is wherever family is"--Information from Amazon.com, viewed Sept. 16, 2013. When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tío Miguel's replies come true until, at last, he puts out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.