The epic fail of Arturo Zamora
(Audio CD)
Author
Published
[New York] : Penguin Random House :, [2017].
Format
Audio CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 hr., 7 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Oliver La Farge - Children's Audiobooks J
CD spoken Fiction Cartaya, P
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CD spoken Fiction Cartaya, P
1 available
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Published
[New York] : Penguin Random House :, [2017].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
UPC
9781524775179
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 5, 7 Points
Level 5, 7 Points
Lexile measure
750
Notes
General Note
Title from label.
General Note
Compact disc.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author.
Description
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 José Martí. 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.
Description
Arturo's Miami summer is marked by the arrival of poetry enthusiast Carmen, who helps him use the power of protest to fight the plans of a land developer who wants to demolish his Abuela's restaurant.
Target Audience
012-017.
Target Audience
7-8.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Children's audiobooks.
Community life -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Miami (Fla.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Real estate development -- Juvenile fiction.
Restaurants -- Juvenile fiction.
Sound recordings.
Community life -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Miami (Fla.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Real estate development -- Juvenile fiction.
Restaurants -- Juvenile fiction.
Sound recordings.
Bisac Subjects