After her dramatic release from quarantine and reunion with her family, Sofia moves to the North End of Boston, where the Monaris start their new lives in their new country. While her parents struggle to make ends meet, Sofia must adjust to her American school, friends and job.

		April 3, 1903 The North End Boston, Massachusetts We live on the corner of Moon and Sun Streets. But there is not light here. Well, hardly any, just one ray of light in our apartment. It slithers in through the one window that faces Moon Street and it makes a patch of brightness in this dark place for half an hour each morning. But I am not complaining because now at last we have an address in America, Number 3 Moon Street, and I am sitting here eating Mama's tortellini soup. A month ago I had no address. I did not know where my mama and papa and sister and brothers were and I was eating garbage, although they called it food. Ha! Ha! I was locked up, but they called it "quarantined," in a jail, but they called it a "hospital" on Ellis Island in New York. They put me there because when our family arrived from Italy the doctors on that island thought I had an eye disease. They thought I would spread germs in America. It was stupid. I had no disease in my eye. Oh well, that is all over now.