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Hilda Burgos author of middle-grade novels Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle,Miosotis Flores Never Forgets and this book. The daughter of Dominican immigrants, she lives with her family near Philadelphia, where she works as an environmental lawyer.
All her books are excellent. I read this one once a week to kids in similar situations: do not have a bed or bedroom or sleep elsewhere at night.