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Thomson, Melissa. TITO THE BONECRUSHER New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2020] IL 3-6 ISBN 9781250233318 |
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What do you do if your father has been sent to a correctional center in Florida for a crime he did not commit? You sit around and wait for him to get out, right? Well, not if you’re eleven-year-old Oliver “Spaghetti-O” Jones you don’t! Oliver hatches a plan with his best friend, “Brain,” the girl genius, to break his dad out of there. Seems pretty far-fetched, but there’s even more--in order to execute their plan they need to enlist the help of Oliver’s favorite luchador, Tito the Bonecrusher. After all, he is a pro-wrestler turned action movie star and his motto is “Never Quit Trying.” The good news is that Tito is coming to town! The bad news is, they need to figure out a way to meet him and convince him to help. Can a girl genius and a very determined boy pull off this feat? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Humorous stories. Children's stories. Illegal aliens -- Juvenile fiction. Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction. Wrestlers -- Juvenile fiction. Escapes -- Juvenile fiction. |
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