(CNN) Ronnie Anne and her family have an altar for Día de Los Muertos, they live above their corner store and skateboard together. They're just another Mexican-American family in the big city.

Ronnie Anne is the star of " The Casagrandes ," a new animated series by Nickelodeon . The show is one of the first cartoons in the US to focus on a Mexican-American family.

"It's so good to think that when kids watch it they can say, 'This character looks like me' or 'Look that's my name.' That's something that makes me proud," said Miguel Puga, the show's supervising director.

The show is a spin-off from Nickelodeon's Emmy-award winning cartoon "Loud House." It tells the story of 11-year-old Ronnie Anne who moves with her mother and brother to the big city to live with her grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles.

The Casagrandes are college professors, nurses, entrepreneurs and one of them is even a professional crier. That's not a coincidence.

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