Amor and Summer Secrets
by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
For fifteen-year-old Mariana Ruiz, it's not so much an unexpected vacation as a literal... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Latino (US / Canada)
Year Published 2008
Word Count 66,394
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 131192, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Puerto Rico
- Family life--Puerto Rico--Fiction
- Racially mixed people--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Teenage girls
- Summer
- Puerto Ricans--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Puerto Rico--Fiction
- Puerto Rican youth
- Puerto Rican families
- Quinceañera (Social custom)--Fiction
- Coming of age--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance | General
- Young Adult Fiction
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Awards & Distinctions 1
International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2023
Second Place Winner, 2009
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