Fifteen-year-old Mara leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

• ISBN: 9780439385787
• Author: Cofer, Judith Ortiz
• Published: 2006 , Scholastic Paperbacks
• Themes: Identity, migration, Puerto Rican in New York, sense of belonging
• Descriptors: Americas, Puerto Rico, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 144