When seamstress Rita Navarro makes a quincea?era dress for fourteen-year-old Stefanie, she finds herself becoming involved with the girl's family and attracted to Stefanie's uncle.
Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Destiny Lozada's traditional Puerto Rican mother and feminist older sister hijack her quincea?era, each pushing her own agenda and ignoring the possibility that Destiny, a skateboarding tomboy, might have her own ideas about the coming-of-age ritual she is about to participate in.
Estrella's mother and aunt are planning a traditional quinceanera complete with mariachi band and puffy-sleeved orange dress; however, Estrella has turned her nose up at tradition and her heritage since she won a scholarship at a ritzy private school in San Jose.
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.
15 tales of taffeta, hairspray, drunk uncles, and other Quincea?era stories
Lopez, Adriana
2007
Fifteen Latino writers share humorous and tender memories of Quinceanera celebrations, a ritual that symbolizes the coming of age for fifteen-year-old Latino girls.
Dora and her friend, Boots the monkey, set out through the farm and the rainforest to deliver the special shoes and crown for her cousin Daisy's quinceanera.
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.
