num_pages: 272
description: 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. Marcus knows what classmates and teachers see when they look at him: a monster.But appearances are deceiving. At home Marcus is a devoted brother. And he finds ways to earn cash to contribute to his familys rainy day fund. His mom works long hours and his dad walked out ten years agosomeone has to pick up the slack.After a fight at school leaves him facing suspension Marcus and his family decide to hit the reset button and regroup for a week in Puerto Rico. Marcus is more interested in finding his father though who is somewhere on the island. Through a series of misadventures that take Marcus all over Puerto Rico in search of the elusive Mr. Vega Marcus meets a colorful cast of characters who show him the many faces of fatherhood. And he even learns a bit of Spanish along the way.Marcus Vega Doesnt Speak Spanish is a novel about discovering home and identity in uncharted landscapes.
language: None
title: Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers