El Angel de Oro
- Francisco and his family are back in Corcoran picking cotton; before this they were in Fowler for grape season.
- Here's the thing about Corcoran: it's super rainy. And that means everyone has to stay inside their cabins. But the best part about staying inside is that Francisco gets to check out the awesome goldfish that the folks have next door. He and his mom love to look through their window and watch that little bugger swimming around, so they give it a special name: el Angel de Oro (a.k.a. The Golden Angel).
- Francisco is going to go to a new school now that he's back in Corcoran, and on his first day he meets a new friend, Miguelito, who also lives in the cotton labor camp.
- Miguelito is pretty great, and he and Francisco hang out at the creek behind the cabins and check out the little fish; Miguelito breaks off branches that they can turn into fishing poles.
- It's all going fine and dandy until the next day. When Francisco looks for Miguelito, he and his whole family have already left the camp.
- Francisco doesn't know where they went, which means we don't know either, but one thing's for sure: losing a friend is a big downer.
- Once it stops raining in Corcoran, Francisco notices that the water is drying up and that means the fish in the puddles are now dying in the mud. He tries to move as many as he can to the creek, but he leaves one fish in a can outside the cabin with the goldfish. You can guess where that little grey fish ends up—right in the bowl with the Golden Angel.
- Francisco sends his fishing pole down the creek, too.