Today Is the Day is about a young girl who is waiting for her father to return home to Mexico from America. He had been working in America so he could get earn money to provide for his family. Yese is super excited and can't wait for her father to return home later in the day, but her older sister Yara doesn't believe he will come home anytime soon. She reminds Yese of the other fathers in town who haven't been back in years and this makes Yese doubt her father will be coming back. However, she still decides to wait by the bus stop for him. She waits all day, but her dad never gets off the bus. Defeated and sad, she returns home. The family decide to wait for the last bus of the night, but it speeds past them. They are all upset as they walk home. However, on the way home they spot their father. He took a car since he missed the bus. They are all excited and relieved to see him. In the beginning, Yese had hoped that her dad would bring back new shoes, but now that he is home all she cares about is his safety and presence. We see Yese change from being excited to hopeful to discouraged and to being relived. In the end, the only thing that matters is that her dad is home safe and her family is whole again, ( )

Most of this story was a bit of a downer with the fathers abandoning their families, but the father does come home by the end so I liked that aspect. Otherwise, I wasn't that enthralled. ( )