Hope arrives in Miami with dreams of living with a glamorous aunt which she knew only from tattered old pictures that her family shared with her in Cuba. However, her dreams of living with a Hollywood movie star are soon shattered when she finds out that the photograph of Tía Lela is old, very old. Hope ends up sharing a small efficiency apartment on Miami Beach with her much older Tía Lela. Hope longs to be a typical American girl and fit in at school but that proves difficult as Tía Lela lives in a very Cuban world. Tía Lela does not even approve of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Laugh out loud as you follow young Hope as she adjusts to life with her Tia Lela. Readers are sure to recognize a little bit of someone they know in each of the colorful characters in the book: Tía Lela: the great matriarch who still follows the customs and traditions of old Cuba.El Viejo Ojeda: the lonely gardener with a glass eye who wrestles the garden hose to the ground every afternoon.Señora Lopez: the mysterious woman who rides the bus each day at the same time yet no one knows where she goes.Lola la Candela: Hope's cousin (called Tía as well) who is on the lookout for husband number four and may just find him around the next corner.Mrs. Cohen: the wealthy woman who pretends to not speak Spanish. Mari Carmen: the nosy neighbor who spends all day sweeping the same spot in front of her home so that she does not miss any of the neighborhood gossip.And then there is Hope, a sweet young girl who loves her Tía Lela but is trapped between two cultures. Is there hope for this young girl? Yes, there is.....Hope in Miami.