Miata Ramirez is devastated when she discovers she's left her folklórico skirt -- her mother's skirt from Mexico -- on the schoolbus. It's Friday afternoon and Miata's supposed to wear the skirt at Sunday afternoon's folk dance. Unable to admit that she's forgotten the skirt, Miata convinces a friend to join her in a Saturday afternoon secret expedition to the fence-enclosed lot where the buses are parked. Of course, nothing turns out quite as planned in this easy to read, short novel printed in clear, large typeface. (Ages 8-11)

THE SKIRT IS gone. Miata Ramirez is scared and upset. She brought her forklorico skirt to show off at school and left it on the bus. It’s not just any skirt. This skirt belonged to Miata’s mother when she was a child in Mexico. On Sunday, Miata and her dance group are going to dance forklorico. It’s Friday afternoon. Miata doesn’t want her parents to know she’s lost something again. Can she find a way to rescue the precious skirt in time?

Includes an afterword from the author.