A birthday in the barrio

By Mayra L. Dole

Subjects: Fiestas, Ficción juvenil, Materiales bilingües, Cuban-americanos, Parties, Cumpleaños, Bilingual, Birthdays, Quinceañera (Social custom), Amistad, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Cuban Americans, Children's fiction, Friendship

Description: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.