If I Could Fly by Judith Ortiz Cofer

"When I come out of my room ready to go to church, I find Papi in the kitchen drinking yesterday's coffee."

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Summary:  When fifteen-year-old Doris's mother, a professional singer, returns to Puerto Rico and her father finds a girlfriend, Doris cares for a neighbor's pigeons and relies on friends as she begins to find her own voice and wings.

Farrar Straus Giroux; 195 pages