Hoping to teach Marisol about her family's homeland, her mother sends her to Panama to live with her grandmother, where her American values are put to the test, as well as her friendship with her best friend Magdalena back in America. Reprint.
Eagerly anticipating her Quincea±era, 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.