Quinceañera means sweet fifteen

By Veronica Chambers

Subjects: Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Panamanian Americans, Quinceañera (Social custom), Fiction, Children's fiction, Family life, Friendship

Description: Eagerly anticipating her Quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.