Armando\'s family is pepenadores, trash pickers, living off things they can use, recycle, and sell from the city trash dump.
Armando\'s parents finally decide that learning may help him find different work when he grows up, so he.
One summer Senor David arrives and begins teaching School on a Blue Tarp spread on the ground.
Armando works with his father to help support the family, but he also finds things for himself--pencil stubs, a notebook, and an old paint set--with which to write and paint.
Armando\'s family is pepenadores, trash pickers, living off things they can use, recycle, and sell from the city trash dump