When Christmas Feels Like Home
Illustrator
Carolina Farias
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Publication Year
2013
ISBN
9780807588727
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
AD540L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Language barrier; Immigrants and refugees; different languages; learning a new language; immigrant family; immigrant parents; immigrant child
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Latinx (Mexican)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2014 History, Life and Culture in the Americas
Keywords
Christmas; Nativity; friendship; soccer; football; new school; new home; Mexico; North Carolina; pumpkins; adjusting
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Griffith, Gretchen, "When Christmas Feels Like Home" (2013). Diverse Families. 1144.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1144