In "Darius and the Clouds," Esperanza says that the sky is important; there is not enough of it where she lives, but she and her friends make do with what they have. A boy named Darius points to a cloud and says it is God.
In "And Some More," Esperanza, her friends Lucy and Rachel, and her sister Nenny are talking idly, watching the clouds, and Esperanza makes some comments about things she's read. The girls start trading insults, and one thing leads to another until Esperanza tells the neighbor girls to get out of her yard, and they say they'll never come back again. Nobody leaves, however, and the insults continue while Nenny, pointing to clouds, calls them by names — human names, that is.
"The Family of Little Feet" starts out as a story Esperanza is telling about a family whose members are small people with little feet. One day the mother comes out with a paper bag full of high-heeled shoes that she gives to Esperanza, Rachel, and Lucy. The girls put the shoes on and walk around the neighborhood. The shoes have a strange effect on people: Benny, the store man, tells the girls they are too young to be wearing shoes like that and threatens to call the police on them. A boy riding by on a bicycle flirts with them. A drunk near a tavern tries to make conversation, and Rachel tells him her name, but Esperanza and Lucy make her leave when the drunk offers her a dollar for a kiss. They take the shoes home and take them off, and when Lucy and Rachel's mother throws them away a few days later, the girls don't care.
