Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
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Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle-grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos.Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target.
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mom decides it's time for a change of environment. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don't remember or have never met. But Marcus can't focus knowing that his father--who walked out of their lives ten years ago--is somewhere on the island.
So begins Marcus's incredible journey, a series of misadventures that take him all over Puerto Rico in search of his elusive namesake. Marcus doesn't know if he'll ever find his father, but what he ultimately discovers changes his life. And he even learns a bit of Spanish along the way.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781101997260 |
| ISBN 10 | 1101997265 |
| Title | Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish |
| Author | Pablo Cartaya |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin USA |
| Year published | 2018-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |