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Item Nr: B 124886 Title: Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Cartaya, Pablo
Length: 236 Prod/Pub: Viking
Copyright: 2017 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 3 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  For Arturo, summertime 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 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. Adventure. Realistic fiction. IL 5-9. AR 5.0. RC 4.6. Lexile 750. GR V.

  Subjects:
  13 - ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS
  1459 - COMMUNITY LIFE/NEIGHBORHOODS
  1433 - DIVERSITY
  488 - FAMILY
  513 - FLORIDA
  1542 - GUIDED READING LEVEL V
  1264 - HISPANICS
  1406 - INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
  1677 - LEXILE 700-799
  770 - MULTICULTURAL/MULTICULTURALISM
  700 - REALISTIC FICTION
  1548 - SUMMER