Chambers, Veronica

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Playing for keeps

Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz travel to Texas to help a new client plan her quincean?era, but when the friends become distracted by outside events, fights, and romantic interests, their party planning business begins to fall apart.

She's got game

Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz are hired by Binky Mortimer, a spoiled, rich, and bubbly girl intent on having the biggest and best Quincean?ra in Miami, but Binky's high demands and expectations wear on the girls from Amigas Inc. and Jamie questions a potential relationship with Binky's brother, Dash. Includes a brief interview with Jennifer Lopez.

Lights, camera, quince!

Carmen is turning fifteen and her friends Sarita, Alicia, Jamie, and Gaz plan to throw her a quinceanera; but when the group decides to join a reality show competition, Carmen feels like her party is becoming less important.

A formal affair

High school junior Carmen, trying to figure out a way to get into a premier fashion and design school, follows her teacher's advice to help plan a school dance with the SoBees, the school's group of mean girls, and finds herself worn out by her new responsibilities and the drama that unfolds when Amigas Incorporated agrees to throw a double quince for two cousins who are very competitive.

Fifteen candles

Alicia takes it upon herself to organize a massive celebration for Sarita's quincean?era, and soon finds that the job is too overwhelming.

Celia Cruz, Queen of salsa

Presents a colorful children's story of Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz, and tells of her childhood and rise to fame.

Queen Bey

a celebration of the power and creativity of Beyonc? Knowles-Carter
2019

The meaning of Michelle

16 writers on the iconic First Lady and how her journey inspires our own
2018
Sixteen writers discuss the life and accomplishments of First Lady, Michelle Obama.
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Resist

35 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice
"A nonfiction collection of profiles of prominent activists for young readers"--Provided by publisher.
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The go-between

Camilla del Valle is the teen every girl in Mexico City envies, with a father who does voice-overs for American movies and a glamorous mother who acts in telenovela films and a life of luxury. Everything changes when her mother is cast in an American television show and they have to move to Los Angeles. There, Cammi meets with racism at her posh, private Polestar Academy, where the white students assume she is there on scholarship. Cammi plays along, trying to get back at them for their stereotypes, but soon she has to wonder if she isn't fooling herself instead.

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