El Bronx Remembered

In a city called New York ...
In a neighborhood called El Bronx ...

• The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.
• A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.
• A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation.

In the South Bronx - or El Bronx, as it's known to the people who live there - anything can happen. A migrant "fres...