![]() ![]() ![]() Kids will relate to Carolina's mother's urgent need to assimilate. Caro finds herself enthralled by the artist, but he too drifts out of the picture, a missed opportunity. If Papi had helped Carolina find her own path, had been really engaged with her while she struggles to fit into the air-conditioned house in rural upstate New York, the poetry might find more life in the story.Ĭarolina's attraction to art inspires her to connect with a local girl named Jennifer, whose father is a painter. Though there's poetry in Silver Meadows Summer - beautiful lines like " Caminante, no hay camino" ("Traveler, there is no path"), by Spanish poet Antonio Machado - the person who delivers the lines, Carolina's Papi, drifts in and out of the story like a spirit. Fans of Latinx fiction might crave more Puerto Rican culture in this poignant story of tween friendship and adjusting to life in a new land. ![]()
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