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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.

Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading African-American community during the 1920s and 1930s.

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.

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.

The author describes many aspects of jump rope including the role that jump rope played in her own life as a girl in East Harlem in the 1950s.

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

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.

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.

A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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