Carmela Full of Wishes

I really enjoyed this book because it was still about a family who immigrated to the US but that was not the only focus of the story! I think it is important to remind children of immigrated families that that does not define who they are but it is just a part of their story! In this book we follow

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the day of a brother and sister and the girl Carmela pondering what she would wish for with the dandelion.. her wishes are like "I wish my father could come home" (he was currently deported) and "I wish my mom could sleep in a fancy bed like the ones at the hotel she works at". These wishes showed the different life that immigrant families have to live but also captured the joy of a child and the bonding with her brother.

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