A promise. Quinceañera. A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . . Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved...

Bettina Restrepo received a BS from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of a picture book, Moose and Magpie . She worked as an internal auditor in the Hispanic supermarket Fiesta...