SOMOS LATINOS: MisCasa / My House

By: George Ancona
Publisher: Children’s Press/Scholastic, 2004
Age Level: 9-12
Language: English and Spanish
ISBN: 0-516-23688-1 (library binding), 0-516-25065-5 (paperback)

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Araceli lives in a house on a ranch in Oregon where her parents are raising goats, calves and chickens in the barn. There’s a lot of work to be done from morning to night. Besides doing her homework after school she feeds the calves and collects eggs from the chickens. Her sisters Alejandra, Marina, Daisy, and her brother Armando Jr. work to help their parents who came from Mexico.