Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Diana Rodriguez Wallach:

Small Town Monsters, September 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Lies That Bind, March 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Proof of Lies, March 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Adios To All The Drama, January 2009
Paperback
Amigas And School Scandals, November 2008
Paperback
Amor And Summer Secrets, September 2008
Paperback

AMOR AND SUMMER SECRETS
By: Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Funny, touching, and smart, a story about friendship, family, rivalry, secrets, and how much you can change over the course of one loco summer?

Kensington
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Featuring: Mariana Ruiz
288 pages
ISBN: 0758225539
EAN: 9780758225535
Paperback
Add to Wish List

Multicultural Latin American | Young Adult

All She Never Wanted…

For fifteen-year-old Mariana Ruiz, it’s not so much an unexpected vacation as a literal “guilt trip”—her father’s way of atoning for ignoring his Puerto Rican roots. But freedom from her parents is little compensation for being forced to spend two months with complete strangers rather than with her best friends in Philadelphia.

Once on “vacation,” her worst fears come true. The heat is merciless, the food is spicy, and her great aunt and uncle’s mountain house teems with relatives, only one of whom—her distant cousin Lilly—speaks English. Bored, and hoping to make up for missing her best friend’s star-studded Sweet 16, Mariana offers to help in the planning of Lilly’s Quinceañera. Soon, despite herself, Mariana clicks with new friends who open doors to romance and long-hidden secrets. Suddenly the summer she dreaded is ending way too quickly. It might turn out that the last place she ever wanted to go is the one place she truly finds herself.