Terry Catasús Jennings
Cami is determined to the best Mary ever in the Latine Club's Christmas pageant. But a splinter in the butt, a baby brother's blowout during the Nativity play's climax, and an unsettled fight with her best friend sour her big night. Cami's grumpiness, her insistence on the torture of the splinter, and her missing her best friend play out against a background of Cuban and Latine Christmas customs.
Valentine's Day is coming up, but Cami wants to focus on winning her school's reading competition. When she tells her teacher she doesn't want to make cards due to her culture, she's asked to make Cuban inspired valentines AND write a report. At least she'll get tickets for the reading challenge out of it. But with a new student logging a crazy number of pages, Cami will have to figure out how tackle her workload and still get her reading in.
Cami doesn't want to wear green on St. Patrick's Day. She's Cuban! She bands together with her friends and classmates to organize a Multicultural Day that celebrates other traditional holidays, but their meeting at the park is interrupted by snakes. When their principal learns about the snakes, she bans the kids from the park. The kids must figure out how to convince their principal the snakes are harmless and to let them host their fiesta.
Cami is determined to win Farmer Beck's Easter bunny race. Every year, kids get to take a bunny home for the weekend, keep a notebook of their bunny's care, and bring it back for a race. The winner gets to take home a bunny! But one of her competitors is neglecting his bunny and wrecking Cami's bunny run. Cami and her friends will need to work together to gather evidence to share with the farmer and help the bunny.
Cami and her friends are preparing their yard art submission for an upcoming Halloween contest. Taking inspiration from the American Gothic painting, their Latine Gothic display is a nod to El Día de los Muertos. Cami is excited to learn more about the holiday with her abuela, but a cloud hangs over her head. Something—or someone—is messing with their Halloween decorations, and Cami wants to catch them in the act.
Cami is excited to celebrate her family's traditional American Thanksgiving. Her plans quickly change when the guest list expands to include her friends, classmates, and former bully, Parry. Even though she tries to give Parry a second chance, he makes it difficult when he takes charge of her Thanksgiving pageant and "helps" her bake pies. Cami knows it is okay to make new traditions; she just wishes it didn't come with so many challenges.
Grumpy Cami Campos is always getting in a mess-mostly of her own making. How she gets herself out of these messes, real and imagined, is the source of hilarity--from dealing with a splinter in her butt and a baby brother's blow out at the posaditas pageant; to saving snakes around St. Patrick's Day; to finding the true history of America's Thanksgiving.
With a diverse cast of characters, the series follows Cami as she finds solutions and navigates American holidays within the backdrop of her Cuban and Latine customs, exploring the intersection of culture, family, and sense of self.
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