Author: Gary Soto
Narrator: Anthony Perez
Unabridged: 2 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 09/01/2012
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
When Hector's mother suggests that he and his amigo, Mando, get out of East LA for the weekend and see some of the world, he's thinking Paris. So he's a little disappointed when they end up in Fresno, sleeping on a lumpy couch in his Uncle Julio's messy apartment. Hector figures it's going to be one boring weekend. He couldn't be more wrong. Between flying in a rickety old plane, spotting an armored car heist, and warding off the bumbling thieves who did it, this could be the craziest-and scariest-weekend ever.
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