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The novel starts with Chela, the narrator, explaining her background. She has two older siblings, Angel Jr and Silvia, and one younger brother, Clark. She also has a long-time best friend that she introduces, Nora.

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Chela is extremely nervous about beginning 6th grade. She explains how close her and her father are, and unfortunately, when she wakes up late on the first day of school, she finds her father on the ground after having a stroke.

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Due to her father's stroke, Chela and her three other siblings stay home for the first few days of school. However, her father, Apá, returns home after about a week. He is extremely fragile and weak, but he is determined to get better.

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After staying at home for a while, Chela goes back to school, and realizes how much has changed around her. She struggles with school when her best friend, Nora, stopped talking to her. Chela explains her days alone at lunch, and being forgotten about even by her teacher.

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As things are not going as planned at school, Chela refuses to tell her father about school in order not to bother him. Even though her father is still slightly recovering, he becomes determined to build a home for his family, so they finally have a house of their very own.

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Now that Chela is in the GT program, and her father is feeling much better, she is very happy with life just as one of her old friends, Roy, begins to talk to her again. Chela goes from having no friends to really bonding with Roy and always walking home from school with him.

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Chela gets an amazing offer to take a test to get placed into the GT program, which is for academically advanced students. This raises her spirit and changes the mood for the book.

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Just after Chela's father had finished successfully building their home, he has another stroke. This time it was extremely devastating, causing her father to pass away. Chela and her family struggle with their loss, especially Chela because of her close relationship with her dad.

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Something in Nora's heart has changed, and Nora apologizes to Chela for leaving her and not talking to her. Very happily, Chela is forgiving for Nora's mistakes, and the two become best friends just like nothing ever happened.

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After spending a long time trying to cope with her father's devastating death, Chela begins to spend time with her friends who make her happy, and she even wins multiple awards at her school. She talks about how proud her father would be, and how she prays and talks to him all the time