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Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish
- Title
- Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish / by Pablo Cartaya.
- Author
- Cartaya, Pablo
- Publication
- New York, New York : Viking, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1494 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 249 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
- 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. A series of misadventures takes Marcus 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. -- From dust jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Marcus Vega does not speak Spanish
- Subject
- Families > Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans > United States > Juvenile fiction
- Down syndrome > Juvenile fiction
- People with mental disabilities > Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools > Juvenile fiction
- Schools > Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > Hispanic & Latino. > United States
- JUVENILE FICTION > Family > General (see also headings under Social Issues)
- JUVENILE FICTION > Social Issues > Special Needs
- Down syndrome
- Families
- Middle schools
- People with mental disabilities
- Puerto Ricans
- Schools
- Puerto Rico > Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Rico
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Audience (note)
- Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high)
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1494
- ISBN
- 9781101997260
- 1101997265
- LCCN
- 2017052895
- OCLC
- 1013499336
- Author
- Cartaya, Pablo, author.
- Title
- Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish / by Pablo Cartaya.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Viking, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) Lexile.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.9 6 196042.Lexile HL580L.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1494