Realistic fiction, from the American Girls Today series, about a young Mexican-American girl who has to deal with her family's impending move to the Chicago suburbs. Standard aspirational fiction for young girls, almost politically correct to the point of blandness, but the talented Soto manages to inject enough ethnic and regional flavor to keep the story grounded. - Dr. Kottke

Marisol loves to dance, so when she finds out she will be moving away from her friends and neighborhood to a suburban town without a dance studio, she’s very upset. She makes a friend in town, finds her missing cat, and recruits a dance teacher and is able to face the move. ( )

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