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In The Summer of El Pintor, the small shops and battered houses of Lucia Street are a far cry from the upper crust neighborhood and the posh boarding school Monica Ramos has left behind when she moves to the barrio. Monica looks up and down the street from the dilapidated house that was her mother's childhood home and decides unhappily that this will be a summer that she will never forget. She is right, in part. She doesn't realize, though, that the...
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A world of adventure greets Elena and her little brother, Carlos, when they leave their Mexican seaside village to find their father, who has suddenly disappeared in the masses of immigrants attempting to make a living in Los Angeles in order to support families back home. Elena strikes out to find her father, without many leads or information, but armed with her well-developed English skills and luckily is hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family....