Xochitl and the flowers: x�chitl, la ni�a de las flores - jorge argueta

In this English-Spanish bilingual story by the award-winning author of A Movie in My Pillow, a girl misses her friends, family and garden after she moves from El Salvador to San Francisco.

IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Bilingual English/Spanish.

Miles away from their home in El Salvador, Xochitl (SOH-cheel) and her family make a new home in the United States, but nothing is the same.

Xochitl mourns a lovely garden and her familys small flower business, all left behind.

Selling flowers on the street soon provides more than income for the Flores family: they begin to make friends with local storeowners and neighbors.

But it is not until the family decides to start a nursery in its backyard that Xochitl begins to learn the true value of community in their adopted country.

Basing his narrative on real-life events, prize-winning poet Jorge Argueta has crafted a tender, poetic, and moving story about a familys determination to set down roots and about their childs blooming among friends and neighbors.

Artist Carl Angels authentic and brilliant artwork splendidly documents this quintessentially American immigration story.