A birthday in the barrio
By: story by Mayra L. Dole ; illustrations by Tonel = Un cumpleaños en el barrio / cuento de Mayra L. Dole ; ilustraciones de Tonel.
Contributors: Eligio, Antonio, ill.
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Subjects: Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Fiction; Birthdays -- Fiction; Parties -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Cuban Americans -- Fiction; Spanish language materials -- Bilingual; Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Cumpleaños en el barrio
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.