With a compelling cliff-hanger ending, this engrossing adventure is sure to leave readers excitedly anticipating the next installment.- Booklist (starred review)*Delightfully weird, this is unlike any other book in the middle grade canon. Review Quotes Sal and Gabi Break the Universe is beautiful, bonkers, and filled to the brim with a fiercely unstoppable joy.- William Alexander, National Book Award-winning author of A Properly Unhaunted Place*Artfully balancing sf antics with a meaningful exploration of grief, Hernandez fills his fast-paced novel with an intriguing blend of sf, folklore, and Cuban culture and populates it with delightfully well-rounded, clever, and exceptionally kind characters, all in a lively, distinctive voice. A sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are just some of the delights that await in his mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter. There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk. When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken-including his dead mother-and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared.
Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances.
There's one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk.īook Synopsis Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence by Carlos Hernandez, winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Award. About the Book The launch of a new duology set in a near-future Miami, where middle-school student Gabi discovers her friend Sal's ability to call forth things and people from other dimensions simply by meditating.
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