When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they rent a Little house, una casita.
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A Spanish edition, La Casita de Esperanza, will be released simultaneously.
With The Little House of Hope , she tells an inspiring, semi-autobiographical story of how immigrants can help each other find their footing in a new country. in 1961, when she was twelve years old.
Terry Catasus Jennings first came from Cuba to the U.
S.
It\'s a safe place in a new land.
Esperanza is always the first to welcome them to la casita.
Together they turn the House into a place where other new immigrants can help one another.
When other immigrant families need a place to stay, it seems only natural for the family in la casita to help.
As Esperanza and her family settle into their new house, they all do their part to make it a home.
But even though they were far from home, The family was together. . .
It smelled like old wet socks.
It was small. . .
Una casita .
It was a Little house.
It may be small, but they soon prove that there\'s room enough to share with a whole community.
When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they rent a Little house, una casita
