Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community.A SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD HONOR FOR MIDDLE GRADE
Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she forgets to do what her mom or abuela asks. But she remembers what matters: a time when her family was whole and home made sense. When Dad returns from deployment, Emilia expects that her life will get back to normal. Instead, it unravels.
Dad shuts himself in the back stall of their family's auto shop to work on an old car. Emilia peeks in on him daily, mesmerized by his welder. One day, Dad calls Emilia over. Then, he teaches her how to weld. And over time, flickers of her old dad reappear.
But as Emilia finds a way to repair the relationship with her father at home, her community ruptures with some of her classmates, like her best friend, Gus, at the center of the conflict.
Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya is a tender story about asking big questions and being brave enough to reckon with the answers.
Pablo Cartaya has never met a cupcake he didn t like which explains his tendency to get disproportionately peppy at random moments. He works and makes his home on the Eastern Seaboard but thinks fondly of the West and loves the blueberry pie he ate once in Topeka. He can t get enough of his little girl and loves her mother, his entire family, and, yes, his in-laws as well. Award-winning baker Martin Howard is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and has been named one of the country s top ten pastry chefs for two years running by Chocolatier and Pastry Art and Design magazines.
Illustrator Kirsten Richards lives in a small house near Oxford with her two cats, three plants, and more spiders than she d like to contemplate. As well as having a BA in general illustration, she has some serious skills in cutting and sticking! When freed from her duties as cat-food opener and chin scratcher, she draws and paints to her heart s content.
Illustrator Kirsten Richards lives in a small house near Oxford with her two cats, three plants, and more spiders than she d like to contemplate. As well as having a BA in general illustration, she has some serious skills in cutting and sticking! When freed from her duties as cat-food opener and chin scratcher, she draws and paints to her heart s content.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780451479723 |
| ISBN 10 | 0451479726 |
| Title | Each Tiny Spark |
| Author | Pablo Cartaya |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House India |
| Year published | 2019-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Schneider Family Book Award |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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