Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
Amelia\'s Road is an inspirational tale about the importance of home..
The richly colored illustrations bring to life the landscape of California\'s Central Valley farmland.
Its stately sense of permanence inspires her to put her own roots down in a very special way.
At its end she finds an amazing old tree reminiscent of the one in her dreams.
Then one day, Amelia discovers an accidental road.
Amelia longs for a beautiful white house with a fine shade tree in the yard, where she can live without worrying about los caminos again.
Los caminos, the roads, take her migrant worker family to fields where they labor all day, to schools where no one knows Amelia\'s name, and to bleak cabins that are not home.
Amelia Luisa Martinez hates roads.
A girl from a migrant worker family overcomes the hardship of moving by creating a special place for herself.
Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home
