A young readers' companion to the adult memoir Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff.Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote.When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in t...

“In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of mind, and humility of heart. Stephen Haff invents impossible projects and makes them possible.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children ArchiveThe unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher...

Previously published as Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible“In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of mind, and humility of heart. Stephen Haff invents impossible projects and makes them possible.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive

A young readers’ companion to the adult memoir Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff.Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in t...