La Casita de Esperanza

When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita. It may be small, but they soon prove that there’s room enough to share with a whole community.

“It was a little house. Una casita . . .
It was small.
It smelled like old wet socks. . .
But even though they were far from home,
The family was together.”


As Esperanza and her family settle into their new house, they all do their part to make it a home, working multiple jobs and doing chores to p...