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Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a world-famous pastry chef, but dreams have a cost. Her family can barely keep the family business running, let alone pay for culinary school. Ana Maria helps out at the family bakery, Café Y Mas, whenever she can, but they are struggling while the rival Cuban bakery across the street, Morales Bakery, is doing better than ever with their Instagram famous desserts. Ana Maria's only hope is winning a recipe competition, which has a grand prize big enough to pay for culinary school. But then the ultimate distraction shows up in her small town: Miguel, a boy she spent one magical day with six months ago, and who she never thought she'd see again. Ana Maria thinks maybe fate has brought them together again for a reason— until she learns the horrible truth that Miguel is a Morales.
A Ybarra cannot be associated with a Morales—let alone fall for one. But when Miguel offers to help Ana Maria with the competition, she is so desperate to win she can't turn him down. All she needs to do is keep Miguel at arm's length and keep their deal a secret from their families. After all, teaming up with Miguel is just business, nothing more...right?
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Release date
September 3, 2024 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781547614752
- File size: 246588 KB
- Duration: 08:33:43
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Languages
- English
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July 8, 2024
While on a college tour in L.A., 17-year-old Cuban American Ana Maria Ybarra meets fellow foodie and amateur photographer Miguel Fuentes. She’s shocked to run into him again when she returns to her hometown of Port Murphy, Wash. But their budding friendship is immediately waylaid by the fact that Miguel is related to the Morales family, the owners of Ana’s family’s rival bakery. Though Ana has dreams of attending pastry school in Paris, her family’s business is struggling, and she knows her parents can’t afford to send her. So she endeavors to win a culinary scholarship and works to develop a recipe for an upcoming contest. Lacking the skills (and funds) to produce professional-looking photos of her creations, she turns to Miguel, but their partnership must remain secret or else Ana’s father will be outraged. When she starts developing feelings for Miguel, however, things get even more complicated. Graphic novelist Castellanos (Isla to Island) gives the family feud trope a sweet twist in her fiction debut, which sensitively explores topics such as Latinx identity, teenage drinking, financial instability, and finding the courage to advocate for oneself. Ages 12–up. Agent: Marietta B. Zacker, Gallt & Zacker Literary.
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