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First, the good news about the Martiniz Family: there’s Dominic, his papa and mama, Grandpa Chino and his two younger brothers, Joseph and Tony, plus his two little twin sisters, Angie and Maria. They all have good, noisy times together, especially the storytelling around the kitchen table and the roughhousing in the living room and the trips walking to the park just down the street. Mama says, “The only bad news is that we are packed like sardines in a can in this small apartment.” Dominic has solved that problem by having his special collection of good things in a tin box packed away in a safe hiding place. Grandpa Chino laughs and tells Dominic that his is one lucky boy because he’s got the world by the tail with his tin box in a safe hiding place. Dominic laughs back at him and says, yes, he thinks so too. But the world is not perfect, and the day comes when Dominic’s private world begins to come undone by the very people he cares most about. How can he grab back that special world of his and hold onto his big, noisy, happy family, both at the same time? That is what Dominic tries to figure out, and that is what his story is all about.