Title: The epic fail of Arturo Zamora
Description: When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Subjects: Cuban Americans, Families, Neighborhoods, Family-owned business enterprises, Community life, Poetry, Family life, Real estate development, Interpersonal relations, Hispanic Americans, Fiction, Restaurants, Juvenile fiction, Interpesonal relations, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Neighbors, fiction, Poetry, fiction, Cuban americans, fiction, Florida, fiction, Restaurants, fiction, Community life, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, award:Pura_Belpre_award, lexile:750, lexile_range:701-800, age:min:10, age:max:12, grade:min:5, grade:max:6, Influence, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
Places: Miami, Miami (Fla.), Florida