Separated from her best friend in Broolyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Veronica Chambers shares how she turned her less-than-perfect qualities into sources of delight and satisfaction, learning to accept herself and her limitations and refusing to try to measure up to society's ideas of the perfect woman.
Carmen is turning fifteen and her friends Sarita, Alicia, Jamie, and Gaz plan to throw her a quincea?era; but when the group decides to join a reality show competition, Carmen feels like her party is becoming less important.
Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.
Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz travel to Texas to help a new client plan her quincea?era, but when the friends become distracted by outside events, fights, and romantic interests, their party planning business begins to fall apart.
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.
After being dumped by her boyfriend and gaining twenty-five pounds during her freshman year at Columbia University, Bee Wilson becomes a world-famous supermodel when a prestigious modeling agency hires her for its plus-size division.
