The Red Umbrella Format:Hardcover they’re told they can ride

they’re told they can ride all the rides they want

she does the unthinkable -- she falls in love

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and eat eggs

and the very real possibility of falling at every turn

The Red Umbrella Format:Hardcover they’re told they can rideThe Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14 year old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Luca lvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins