Chapters 1 and 2 Summary

Janey Larkin is ten years old. She is sitting on the steps of a shack and the family is just trying to settle into this house, which is a temporary stopping place. There is a Mexican family living nearby and Janey knows that the father of the family is Manuel Romero. She knows that there's at least one child in the family and that she might make friends, but she also knows that the Larkin family has to move constantly in order for her father to find work. She believes that they won't be here long enough for her to really strike up a friendship and so decides that she won't make the effort. But soon a young Mexican girl, about Janey's age, comes across to the shack. The girl, who is Lupe Romero, is carrying a baby. Lupe introduces the...