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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
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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.
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