Quinceañera means sweet fifteen

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.

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

Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York,  New York,  New York (State)