Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

Author:Nancy Osa
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307433268
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2007-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

I slowly added ideas to the quince notebook. The big day was on a Sunday. While we weren’t inviting anyone to a special church service, Mom and Dad and I had decided our family would attend regular Mass at St. Edna’s that morning, for posterity, and then get ready for the party. I had nearly finalized the lineup for the “All the World’s a Stage” show:

That ought to do it. By the time the party was over, I’d be a woman. Or at least I hoped so, for Abuela’s sake. I showed my damas the outline one day after school as we hung out by Janell’s locker.

“I’m supposed to give my speech?” Leda asked, surprised. She and Janell had received mixed reviews at the tourney too. “You want ‘Plows, Not Cows’?”

“This isn’t a rally,” Janell remarked.

“Yeah, can you try and come up with something to go with ‘All the World’s a Stage’?”

“And not ‘All the World’s a Cage,’ either,” warned Janell. “Guests will be eating meat, and we don’t want to freak them out.”

“Yeah,” I said, “we’re serving some of those bacon-grease ice cream cones, and we want everybody to enjoy them.”

Leda clapped steely eyes on me. “Don’t mention that.”

Janell fought to keep her trembling lips in a straight line.

“Sorry,” I lied.

Leda ignored me as she cranked up the gears and pulleys in her head. She was on a trail, as the Extempers called it. “I’ll think of something,” she mused. “After last week, I might try another event. Declamation, maybe. At least Dec speeches are written by somebody else.”

“Well, hurry up. I’ve only got another six months before I’m supposed to be a woman.”

Leda eyed my still sunken chest. “You’d better start exercising, then.”

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