How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay: 1 (Tia Lola Stories) - Softcover

Alvarez, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440418704 ISBN 13: 9780440418702

Publisher: Yearling Books, 2002

Synopsis

How Tia Lola Came to Stay Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about. Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica, " and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Full description

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Review:

"Like all good stories, this one incorporates a lesson just subtle enough that readers will forget they're being taught, but in the end will understand themselves, and others, a little better, regardless of the la lengua nativa - the mother tongue. Simple, bella, un regalo permanente simple and beautiful, a gift that will stay."-Kirkus Reviews

From the Back Cover:

As Miguel and his sister walk out of the office, they hear a tremendous shout. It isn't a shout in Spanish, and it isn't a shout in English. It is a shout anyone anywhere would understand.

Someone is mighty pleased to see them.

On the other side of the counter stands their aunt Lola. You can't miss her! Her skin is the same soft brown color as theirs. Her black hair is piled up in a bun on her head with a pink hibiscus on top. She wears bright red lipstick, and above her lips she has a big black beauty mark. On her colorful summer dress, parrots fly toward palm trees, and flowers look ready to burst from the fabric if they can only figure out how.

Behind their aunt, their mother is approaching in her hiking boots and navy blue parka, her red hat and mittens. "Tia Lola!" she cries out. They hug and kiss and hug again. When Tia Lola pulls away, the beauty mark above her upper lip is gone!

-- from How Tia Lola Came to Stay

About this edition

• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0440418704
• ISBN 13: 9780440418702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160