Pablo Cartaya
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.95 | 2545 Users | 502 Reviews
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| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Junior Book (2020), Pura Belpré Award Nominee for Author (2018), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2020) |
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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.
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| Title | : | The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora |
| Author | : | Pablo Cartaya |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | May 16th 2017 by Viking Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Family |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 2545 Users | 502 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
I loved this YA read. The narrative was a Cuban teenager that lives in Miami, Florida with his large family. Summer became a great time for him to grow up unwillingly. He falls in love for the first time while the family restaurant is in danger in the hands of a redeveloping slimy Capitalist sleezeball that has no idea what a family or community is. Arturo Zamora is desperate to save the memory of his Abuelo y Abuela in this restaurant. I loved his family and cheered for them. Sweet memorableSo here's an unintended consequence of our Tangerine Hitler in Chief -- you can now make the villain in a children's book just as grotesque and childish as you like.Where previously I might have read the soulless real estate developer bent on destroying Arturo's family's restaurant as cartoonish and unrealistic, now I get that someone just like "Wilfrido Pipo" has surely been taking down honest businesses for decades, and with the same lack of subtlety.Also, this is a fantastic book.
I expect this book to get nominated for awards, it's amazing!!!!! Love it, plan to read it again.
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya, is about a boy named Arturo who has a huge family. There family owns the restaurant La Cocina in Miami. This summer was going to be the best summer ever before Carmen, a beautiful girl who loves poetry, and Pipo, a salesman with a mysterious business, shows up and flips Arturo's feelings and life upside down. Will he be able to do it all or will it be an epic fail. This book is amazing Pablo Cartaya is an amazing writer and I suggest this book for
Interest Level: 5-8; Reading Level: 5.7If you knew that your family home and your family business was in jeopardy of being destroyed, would you have the guts to stand up and fight for it, or would you sit back and watch it happen? Arturo's vastly large family all lives in one apartment complex community within steps from the family restaurant, La Cocina de la Isla. Arturo has his family, his two best friends, and it is summertime which means basketball, working at the restaurant, and his
A touching middle grade story about family, food, poetry, community, first crushes, and the fight against gentrification. Loved the incorporation of poetry into the story, notably poems by Cuban revolutionary José MartÃ.
I like the way we are beginning to get good nice families back in kids' lit. such as the family in The Hate You Give. This "Epic Fail" one has an extended family that is just plain close and accepting of each other. Sure, they get on each other's nerves but push comes to shove, the family is there for each other. However, that is about all I can praise the book for. I rounded this up from 1.5 stars. The success does not make logical sense. One minute they are talking to the council members who
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