num_pages: 256
description: Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG EPIC FAIL? For Arturo summetime in Miami means playing basketball until dark sipping mango smoothies and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela's restaurant. Maybe. But this summer also includes Carmen a cute poetry enthusiast who moves into Arturo's apartment complex and turns his stomach into a deep fryer. He almost doesn't notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight and as he schemes with Carmen Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of Jose Marti.
language: English
title: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers