Title: Best friends tell the best lies
First published: 1989
Description: Fourteen-year-old Leah's loyalty and devotion to her emotionally troubled friend, Tamara, brings into focus some of her conflicting feelings about her mother's imminent remarriage and her own growing attachment to a young Mexican American, the nephew of her mother's boyfriend.
Subjects: Emotional problems, Prejudices, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Mothers and daughters, Friendship
LC classification: PZ7.D6119 Be 1989