CD Audiobook
The epic fail of Arturo Zamora / Pablo Cartaya.
Record details
- ISBN: 1524775177
- ISBN: 9781524775179
- ISBN: 9781524775193
- ISBN: 1524775193
- Physical Description: 5 audio discs (5 hr., 7 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Random House : [2017]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from web page. Compact disc. Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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? Nothing beats summertime in Miami. For Arturo, this 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 feels different when a cute girl named Carmen moves into Arturo's apartment complex, turning his stomach into a deep fryer. Arturo almost doesn't notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. What the town needs are new businesses, he says--not twenty-year-old restaurants. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight. And as he schemes with Carmen to take down the developer, Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of Jose? Marti?. Funny and poignant, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora is the vibrant story of a family, a striking portrait of a town, and one boy's quest to save both. From the Hardcover edition. |
| Target Audience Note: | 012-017. 7-8. |
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| Subject: | Restaurants > Juvenile fiction. Miami (Fla.) > Juvenile fiction. Real estate development > Juvenile fiction. Children's audiobooks. |
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Pablo Cartaya has always been a hopeless romantic. In middle school he secretly loved reading Shakespeare's sonnets (don't tell anyone), and he once spent his allowance on roses for a girl he liked. He also wrote her eight poems. Bad ones. He's been writing ever since. Pablo has worked in Cuban restaurants and the entertainment industry, and he graduated with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. All of these experiences have helped him write stories that reflect his family, culture, and love of words. Pablo lives in Miami with his wife and two kids, surrounded by tÃas, tÃos, cousins, and people who he calls cousins (but aren't really his cousins). Learn more about Pablo at pablocartaya.com.
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