Sweetwater American

I grew up in a building called El Barco. We called it El Barco because it was shaped like a ship and took up a whole block of sidewalk.

And so begins the story of Sandy Rodriguez, an American orphan and would-be filmmaker who is sent to live in a cursed town in El Salvador with her godmother, a woman whom she has never met and who may hold the secret to breaking the town's curse.

One day, on her way home from school, Sandy meets two Spanish actresses who are in town filming a movie. Sandy h...