Bilingual - Mi sueno de America/My American Dream

Bilingual - Brown, Monica. tr. by Georgina Baeza. U.S.: Piñata Books: Arte Público Press. 2007. 55p. ISBN 978-1-55885-485-7. pap. $9.95. Gr 4-6–In this autobiographical story, nine-year-old Yuli has just moved to Houston, Texas from Monterrey, Mexico. Through a fresh perspective, the narrator captures the strangeness of her American surroundings, from the freeways to living in an apartment and in a big city for the first time. She is excited about her life in the United States, but this feeling soon turns into disappointment when her classmates do nothing to help her fit in at her new school where she neither understands nor speaks the language. Her teacher’s encouragement makes a world of difference, and Yuli slowly feels motivated to overcome adversity.