When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.

שם הספר
The Summer of El Pintor
Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla DOS Veces
Pepita on Pepper Street/ Pepita En La Calle Pepper
The Trouble With Tessa