¡Sí, Se Puede! is a Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book, a Skipping Stones Honor Book, as well as a selection for The Best of Beyond Difference, a recommended list of the top 10 diversity books published in 2002.ĭiana Cohn, the author, is a social activist. He and the other children in his class join the marchers with a very special sign for his mom! How will Carlitos support his mother? Carlitos wants to help but he cannot think of a way until his teacher, Miss Lopez, explains in class how her own grandfather had fought for better wages for farmworkers when he first came to the United States. She and the other janitors have decided to go on strike. One night, his mamá explains that she can’t make enough money to support him and his abuelita the way they need unless she makes more money as a janitor. When she comes home, she waves Carlitos off to school before she goes to sleep. Every night, he sleeps while his mother cleans in one of the skyscrapers in downtown L.A. It tells about Carlitos, whose mother is a janitor. ¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! is a bilingual fictional story set against the backdrop of the successful janitors’ strike in Los Angeles in 2000.
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