Cosquillas and “be generous with the applause.”įrom the July/August 2020 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. As to the children’s quest, “No es fácil,” to quote Sal (and “every Cuban ever”), but when it’s all over, it’s easy for readers to follow the advice of Sal’s homeroom teacher Srx. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would. Can she be trusted? And must the (truly terrible) show go on? Featuring a diverse cast of characters both human and AI (and introducing Vorágine, a talking toilet whose name means “whirlpool” in Spanish), Hernandez balances action with playfulness, humor, and heart. Then a rogue Gabi from another universe pops up, warning of even more dire consequences.
Sal’s father, a calamity physicist, thinks the way to do it is by mending the rips in the membrane between universes, but Sal’s not so sure. Sal and Gabi are back in the sequel to Pura Belpré Award–winning Sal & Gabi Break the Universe, only this time they have to fix the universe - and during tech week for their school’s production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Gabi is playing Alice), no less. There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk.Ī 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.Intermediate, Middle School Riordan/Disney-Hyperion 421 pp. 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. except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. 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.
Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school.
When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. 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)? "In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things-and people-from other universes."
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