Xenia Navarro and the Magic Ants by Lois Wickstrom and Milagros Darling – Review by Tanya Wall, August 2023

Xenia Navarro and the Magic Ants by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have enjoyed every one of Lois Wickstrom’s books and this one did not disappoint. This is a story about a little girl who loses her father. He is killed before he marries her mother. He is a US Citizen and mom is not. This leaves Xenia’s mother with an undocumented status which causes the family to make some hard decisions in order to remain in the US. While this is an integral theme of the story, Xenia also is involved throughout with the school science fair and begins studying ants. Having worked with children in similar circumstances as Xenia and seeing how they can face such hard situations at home and still have a love of learning gave me a connection to the story here.

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