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Spare Parts (Young Readers' Edition)

The True Story of Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and an Impossible Dream
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In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much-but two inspiring high school science teachers convinced these kids to use their talents and build something grander than their wildest dreams: an underwater robot. Up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, the four Phoenix teenagers scraped together meager funds and their tech classroom's spare parts to astound not only the competition's judges, but themselves. This young readers' edition highlights these students' insurmountable courage, intelligence, and determination to succeed, even when their country was against them. More timely now than ever, Spare Parts: Young Readers' Edition is an accessible introduction to immigration and STEM, adapted by a prominent Mexican-American author.

Author Biography:

Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us, where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant. The much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home, was released in 2018. Her other works include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies, which were published to critical acclaim. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges and cities across the country. reynagrande.com Joshua Davis has been a contributing editor at Wired for a decade and is the cofounder of Epic magazine, where his work was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing. He has also written for The New Yorker and other periodicals, and his writing is anthologized in the 2012 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing, as well as in the 2006, 2007, and 2009 editions of Best Technology Writing. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream and The Underdog, a memoir about his experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, and matador. He lives in San Francisco with his family.
Release date NZ
June 19th, 2023
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Audience
  • Children / Juvenile
Illustrations
8-Page 4-Color Insert
Interest Age
From 10 years
Pages
160
Dimensions
143x217x19
ISBN-13
9780374388614
Product ID
36567893

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