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Quinceanera Means Sweet 15

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Magdalena is Marisol's best friend.Both of them want to have a quince.Magda's famliy is rich so she is for sure she is going to have one.Marisol isn't really sure cause her mom is on a budget.My favorite character is Marisol,because liked the way she was.She wasnt all acting like a goody two-shoes.What I liked about the book is that it's a very good book and I loved the characters and the dramma between the problems.I also liked the spanish culture. I learned a little bit more about the hispanic culture. It was a joy to read.Please read this book!

Magdalena is Marisol's best friend.Both of them want to have a quince.Magda's famliy is rich so she is for sure she is going to have one.Marisol isn't really sure cause her mom is on a budget.My favorite character is Marisol,because liked the way she was.She wasnt all acting like a goody two-shoes.What I liked about the book is that it's a very good book and I loved the characters and the dramma between the problems.I also liked the spanish culture. I learned a little bit more about the hispanic culture. It was a joy to read.Please read this book!

Magdalena is Marisol's best friend.Both of them want to have a quince.Magda's famliy is rich so she is for sure she is going to have one.Marisol isn't really sure cause her mom is on a budget.My favorite character is Marisol,because liked the way she was.She wasnt all acting like a goody two-shoes.What I liked about the book is that it's a very good book and I loved the characters and the dramma between the problems.I also liked the spanish culture. I learned a little bit more about the hispanic culture. It was a joy to read.Please read this book!

Hyperion's easy-to-read sequel to Marisol and Magdalena continues to immerse readers into the life of a sweet Latina teenager growing up in Brooklyn. Deftly, Chambers weaves in details about the language, food, values, faith, and pride of the Panamanian immigrant community.

Immigrants like the Panamanians who cluster in the same neighborhood have certain advantages over those of us who grew up scattered in the suburbs. Although Marisol struggles with the abandonment of her father, I found myself envying her strong sense of identity, forged in a community that shepherds her into womanhood. She has aunts and cousins and neighbors who understand what it means to be a Panamanian-American growing up in Brooklyn. Best of all, she has a Mami who knows what she's feeling almost without a word.

Unlike immigrant kids who grow up in non-immigrant communities, there's hardly any culture clash between the generations. Marisol accepts and internalizes the values of the community because they are validated all around her. She dates a Panamanian boy, accepts the Catholic faith, delights in her Latina heritage and language, and eagerly desires a quince. One wonders if Marisol and her peers will choose to separate more from their community and culture than their mothers did, eventually moving out of Brooklyn into the suburbs. Will Marisol's daughter spend hours dreaming about her quince? Maybe. Perhaps the author's point is that in tightly-knit urban immigrant communities, the tensions between a first generation of immigrants and their American-born children don't have to tear families apart.