Description |
236 pages ; 21 cm |
Summary |
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summetime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela's restaurant. Maybe. But this summer also includes Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast who moves into Arturo's apartment complex and turns his stomach into a deep fryer. He almost doesn't notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight, and as he schemes with Carmen, Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of Jose Marti. |
Audience |
750L Lexile |
Note |
750L Lexile |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 7 190668 |
Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 7 190668 |
Subject |
Community life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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Miami (Fla.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Local Subject |
REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD [2020 NOMINEE].
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ISBN |
9781101997239 |
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1101997230 |
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