Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with
Cuban influence by Carlos Hernandez, winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré
Award.
"I love this book in every possible universe! With a surprise on every
page and two of the most cosmically awesome, vividly unique heroes I've
ever read, this sweet, hilarious book made me so happy."--Tui T.
Sutherland, author of the New York Times best-selling Wings of Fire
series
What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space
and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer
living (in this universe, anyway)?
When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the
best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third
time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi,
student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to
support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is
determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's
locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has
since mysteriously disappeared.
Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight
of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess . . . except maybe
Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. When Gabi learns that he's
capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken--including his
dead mother--and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is
someone he can work with. There's only one slight problem: their
manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk.
A sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who
wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are
just some of the delights that await in his mind-blowing novel
gift-wrapped in love and laughter.
**Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
soon to be a series on Disney+.
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