Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence by
Carlos Hernandez winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Award. I love this book in every possible
universe! With a surprise on every page and two of the most cosmically awesome vividly unique
heroes I've ever read this sweet hilarious book made me so happy.--Tui T. Sutherland author
of the New York Times best-selling Wings of Fire seriesWhat 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. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time
in three days and it's still the first week of school. Gabi student council president and
editor of the school paper is there to support her friend Yasmany who just picked a fight
with Sal. 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. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician but for this sleight of hand
he relied on a talent no one would guess . . . except maybe Gabi whose sharp eyes never miss a
trick. 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. There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space
could put the entire universe at risk. 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. Endorsed
by Rick Riordan author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians soon to be a series on Disney+.
