Best friends tell the best lies

By Carol Dines

Subjects: Mexican Americans, Prejudices, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Friendship, Emotional problems

Description: Fourteen-year-old Leah's loyalty and devotion to her emotionally troubled friend, Tamara, brings into focus some of her conflicting feelings about her mother's imminent remarriage and her own growing attachment to a young Mexican American, the nephew of her mother's boyfriend.