About this item
A heartwarming middle grade about family, friendship, and finding your voice (plus, tacos!) .Seventh grader Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for her dad to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be put out to pasture. It's no fun being known as the "Taco Queen" at school. But just when new city regulations are proposed, and her family's livelihood is threatened, she will have to become the truck's unlikely champion. In this fun and multicultural middle grade novel, Stef will embrace her identity and discover what matters most.
About the Author
Jennifer Torres lives and writes in a little beach town on the coast of Florida. When she can outrun her kids and grab the laptop back from a very strong ten-year-old, she loves to write about fantastical lands, secret passageways, and doorways to magical places. A journalist for 15 years, she's also written a series of celebrity biographies for children. Her debut mystery trilogy THE BRINY DEEP MYSTERIES arrives September 2014! Pre-order now!
