As if that were not enough, Sal’s unlikely new friend, Yasmany, seems to have gone missing, and a Gabi from another universe shows up to warn Sal that Papi’s research has destroyed her world and killed her own Sal and that they must stop his version of Papi from doing the same. Then Sal’s calamity-physicist father and Gabi’s Dad: The Final Frontier finish work on their remembranation machine, which they hope will fix the holes in the universe created in the Pura Belpré–winning Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (2019)-but has become sentient artificial intelligence in the process. It’s been three weeks since Sal and Gabi saved the life of Gabi’s newborn brother, Iggy, and everything seems to be back to normal-or at least as normal as possible with a potentially broken universe. There’s only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk.Ī 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.The continued multiverse adventures of Sal Vidón and Gabi Reál.

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. except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. 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. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal.

Sal is in the principal’s office for the third time in three days, and it’s still the first week of school. When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn’t under the best of circumstances.

How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany’s locker?

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