"Sweet 15," by Shannon Weil, is about the justice a Mexican-American girl gets for her father. Her father won't let the girl, Marta, have her coming-of-age 15th birthday party soon, although it is traditional for Mexicans. This is because he is an illegal immigrant, and may have to take the family back to Mexico. To help her father and to earn her party, she decides, "If a person can prove how long he's been in the country – and that he earned his own way – he can qualify for amnesty. I can prove my father qualifies if I can get signatures at his old jobs." She goes and gets the signatures she needs. Her friend's cousin states, "He wanted to keep your life sweet." In the end her father gets the justice he deserved, and Marta got her party.