A Second Chance on Earth
by
Juan Vidal
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0823462609
ISBN-13
9780823462605
Publisher
Holiday House Inc
Imprint
Holiday House Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
218 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 14.00 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fictionClassic fiction (Children's / Teenage)Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fictionGeneral fiction (Children's / Teenage)Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing artsDrama & performing (Children's / Teenage)
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A father, a friend, and a favorite book help a teen boy understand love and loss in this moving and vivid YA novel in verse.
Have you ever encountered a book that KO''d you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a hex from an unknown planet?
For sixteen-year-old poet and b-baller Marcos Cadena, that book is the beat-up copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude he finds among his late father''s possessions after Papi is killed in an accident.
Marcos'' papi has always loomed large in his eyes. So, when Marcos travels to his parents'' childhood home of Cartagena, Colombia to spread Papi''s ashes, he brings his father''s book with him, convinced that Gabriel García Márquez''s masterpiece holds the key to understanding Papi''s life and accepting his death.
In Cartagena, Marcos befriends eighteen-year-old Camilo, a taxi driver and fellow García Márquez fan who appoints himself Marcos'' unofficial tour guide. Together, the two boys explore the landscape of Cartagena, from the picturesque streets of Old Town to the poor neighborhood where Camilo grew up. But when Camilo reveals a troubling secret from his past, Marcos must ask himself whether everyone deserves a second chance.
Woven through with themes of friendship, family, and forgiveness, this poignant novel in verse is also a love letter to Colombia and to the books of Gabriel García Márquez.
Have you ever encountered a book that KO''d you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a hex from an unknown planet?
For sixteen-year-old poet and b-baller Marcos Cadena, that book is the beat-up copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude he finds among his late father''s possessions after Papi is killed in an accident.
Marcos'' papi has always loomed large in his eyes. So, when Marcos travels to his parents'' childhood home of Cartagena, Colombia to spread Papi''s ashes, he brings his father''s book with him, convinced that Gabriel García Márquez''s masterpiece holds the key to understanding Papi''s life and accepting his death.
In Cartagena, Marcos befriends eighteen-year-old Camilo, a taxi driver and fellow García Márquez fan who appoints himself Marcos'' unofficial tour guide. Together, the two boys explore the landscape of Cartagena, from the picturesque streets of Old Town to the poor neighborhood where Camilo grew up. But when Camilo reveals a troubling secret from his past, Marcos must ask himself whether everyone deserves a second chance.
Woven through with themes of friendship, family, and forgiveness, this poignant novel in verse is also a love letter to Colombia and to the books of Gabriel García Márquez.
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