Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish

Summary: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.

Item details

ISBN: 9781101997260
ISBN: 1101997265
Physical Description: print
249 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

Target Audience Note:	Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.9 6.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #196042. Reading Counts 6-8 4.3 13 74976. Lexile 580L. F&P V.
Awards Note:	ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019 Américas Award commended title, 2019 Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, 2018 School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

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