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Name: A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation
Author: Cartaya, Pablo
ISBN: [978-0-451-47975-4,0-451-47975-0]

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A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation

Author: Cartaya, Pablo

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Follett Number: 2748QG2
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Kokila, 2025
Format: 270 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-451-47975-4
ISBN-10: 0-451-47975-0
LCCN: 2024-047204
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Automobile Travel Fiction

Cuban Americans Fiction

Grandfathers Fiction

Grandparent and Child Fiction

Road Fiction

Thirteen-year-old Cuban American Gonzalo joins his estranged grandfather on road trip to promote his grandfather's fantasy book series.

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Reality proves more epic than fantasy in this family road trip story starring a reluctant young hero and his curmudgeonly grandfather. Gonzalo Alberto Sanchez Garcia has never considered himself the hero of his own story. He's an observer, quietly snapshotting landscapes and drawing the creatures he imagines emerging from them. Forced to spend the summer with his estranged grandfather, Alberto William Garcia--the very famous reclusive author--Gonzalo didn't expect to learn that heroes and monsters are not only the stuff of fantasy. But that's precisely what happens when Gonzalo's CEO mother, Veronica, sends Alberto on tour to promote the final book in his fantasy series for children and Gonzalo must tag along, even though he feels no connection to his grandfather or the books. Together, they embark on a cross-country road trip from Mendocino to Miami in a classic 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass S Convertible named Mathilde. Over the course of ten epic days on the highway, they will slay demons, real and imagined; confront old stories to write new ones; and learn what it truly means to show up for your family.

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