While waiting in line with her mother at the post office, Margarita greets the patrons who come in carrying different types of mail.

As a small girl grows from "not-being-able, to now-she-can," she wonders if she will ever spend a whole night at her grandmother's house without being afraid.

Poems focusing on a day in the life of a brother and sister, spent at the beach, sometimes argumentatively, mostly compatibly.

Spider is afraid to get up on stage in front of everybody in the school spelling bee, but after listening to his father's advice, decides that he too will try to be as brave as his Shoshoni ancestors.