How Tía Lola Learned to Teach by Julia Alvarez

Author:Julia Alvarez [Alvarez, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89584-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

“I’ve been thinking about your little friend Ofie,” Tía Lola says to Juanita on their ride home on the bus. They’ve already gone by the farm where Ofie gets off with her older sister, María, and the farmer’s son, Tyler. “You said her birthday was in August?”

Juanita nods. Ms. Sweeney wrote everyone’s birth date on the big calendar, but since Ofie’s was in the summer, Juanita didn’t pay that much attention. “I think it was like the last week in August.”

“That means her half birthday is in late February, which is about the same time as carnaval, so what I was thinking—”

“That’s a great idea!” Juanita interrupts Tía Lola. It’s as if Juanita were a mind reader, because she knows exactly what her aunt was about to suggest. Why not make the carnaval fiesta also be Ofie’s half birthday party?! And since the celebration is at school, Ofie doesn’t have to worry about having friends over.

But there is only one other problem. Mami has vetoed the idea of half birthdays. If you do it for one kid, every kid in the world will want one.

“I have a feeling your mother will make an exception in this case,” Tía Lola says. “Toda regla tiene su excepción.”

“I know,” Juanita says. “We have that saying, too.” There is an exception to every rule, in Spanish, in English—in fact, everywhere in the world.

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