Newly-arrived in the United States from Mexico, Carmen is apprehensive about going to school and learning English.

When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.

Little Quinito and his family take the reader through a day filled with opposites, including short/tall, quiet/loud, and rainy/sunny. Quinito y su familia conducen al lector por un da̕ lleno de opuestos, inclusos bajo y alto, callado y ruidoso, y lluvioso y soleado.