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Crusher—the city's toughest and meanest debt collector—is dead. But his secret boxes of blackmail, stolen jewelry, piles of cash, and maybe a $100,000 lottery ticket have every crook, cop, and hustler clawing for a piece. From a street kid who knows too much to a blind widow who knows everything, the chase is fast, funny, and full of bad decisions. Because in New York, the dead don't always stay buried.

Salvar el restaurante. Salvar la ciudad. Conseguir a la chica. Hacer sentir orgullosa a su abuela. ¿Puede Arturo Zamora, de trece años, hacerlo todo o está por enfrentarse a un ÉPICO FRACASO? Para Arturo, el verano en Miami significa jugar a baloncesto hasta el anochecer, beber batidos de...

From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community. A SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD HONOR FOR MIDDLE GRADE Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard...

One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle-grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos. 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...

A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book 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, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Reality proves more epic than fantasy in this family road trip story starring a reluctant young hero and his curmudgeonly grandfather. A Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor Book Gonzalo Alberto Sánchez García has never considered himself the hero of his own...