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1) Cuba 15
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Language
English
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Description
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
7) Miss Quinces
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Series
Language
English
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"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine...
Author
Series
Dora the Explorer ; 19
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dora and Boots have to deliver a special crown and shoes to her cousin Daisy for her fifteenth birthday party--her fiesta de quinceañera.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Isabel is upset that everyone at her uncle's ranch in San Antonio is too focused on her sister's upcoming quinceañera to pay much attention to Isabel, but then she and her cousin make a discovery and break a valuable sculpture.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
13) All for one
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dom, Pancho, Steph, and their noble steed, Rocco, are ready for their next adventure! When their beloved El Señor Fuentes asks Dom to run a very important errand--to put the order in at the local butcher shop for his daughter, Leni's, upcoming quinceañera--Dom is happy to help. But when Señor Fuentes discovers the order was never put in--and the food for the party has been sold to someone else--Dom takes a cue from The Three Musketeers to try...
14) Sweet 15
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Destiny Lozada's traditional Puerto Rican mother and feminist older sister hijack her quinceañera, 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.
15) Fifteen candles
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For Alicia Cruz and her three best friends--Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz--quinceñeras, the fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen, are a staple of the Miami social scene. But this summer after meeting the new girl in town, Alicia ends up volunteering to help organize Sarita's quince. Soon Alicia is drowning in preparations and turning into a quince-zilla. Will she learn to trust her amigas and rock the party?
17) Queerceañera
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceanera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelan is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going...
18) Quince
Author
Publisher
Fanbase Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Quince follows a year in the life of Lupe, a 15-year-old girl who discovers that her quinceañera brings with it a super cool party ... and superpowers. Her quince powers only last as long as she's fifteen, so over the course of this rollercoaster year, we follow the adventures of Lupe as she figures out what it really means to be a hero.
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