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This fast-paced, feisty tale of female friendship is the debut of a fresh and enchanting new literary voice. By turns a soap opera and a honky tonk spiritual guide, "ACaramba!" combines romance with adventure and rolls them into one big hot tamale. 50 illustrations.

“¡Caramba! is about six characters in search of a volcano. It’s ‘Thelma and Louise’ on the border. And Nina Marie Martínez really knows her stuff: zanier than a telenovela, funnier than a Mexican-cowboy western.” –Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, and Caramelo

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An Introduction to the Players

LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS

Natalie and Consuelo were best friends since the second grade when the latter stuck a piece of ABC gum in the former's hair while they were engaged in a fistfight over a boy whose name neither of them could remember. When Natalie had to cut her then waist-length hair up to a chin-length bob, Consuelo followed suit. Both girls realized at the early age of eight, a man is the last thing that ought to come between friends. ... view entire excerpt...

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