| Management number | 240665071 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$18.40 | Model Number | 240665071 | ||
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<p><b>After witnessing the tragic death of a classmate, seventeen-year-old Cal desperately searches for a way out of his blink-and-you'll-miss-it rural town of La Sombra, California</b>--<b>before he, too, becomes a nobody-migrant statistic.</b></p><p>In the summer of 1994, seventeen-year-old Cal "California" Garcia can't seem to escape the gossip and horrified looks of his fellow La Sombra residents. They judge him on nothing more than the long scar on his face, his beat up '68 Mustang, and always being in the wrong place at the wrong time.</p><p>Cal constantly feels like he's been set up to fail. His father left his family after the tragic accident that gave him his scar. His mother spends all her time at church, enchanted by the words of a crooked pastor. And his new-old Mustang brings more trouble and chaos than it's worth. Everything about being in La Sombra tells him he is and always will be a nothing. But as his senior year is coming to an end, his life is turned drastically upside down. Out by the railroad tracks, Cal finds Nora, valedictorian Nora, fallen off a bridge. The monarch butterflies stitched onto her jeans are seared into his memory forever. Having found her body, Cal becomes a person of interest in Nora's suspicious death.</p><p>As Cal tries to escape suspicion, an opportunity for a way out of La Sombra emerges from nowhere, and Cal is forced to choose his own fate. Will Cal finally decide who he is and where he wants to be? Or will he let circumstance choose for him and live his life as just another statistic in a farm-worker town?</p>
| Book format | Audiobook |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Kids & Family |
| Publication date | September, 2026 |
| Pages | 0 |
| Subgenre | Hispanic & Latino |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Tantor |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Digital audio file format | CD standard audio format |
| Narrator | Israel Moya |
| Recording time | 540 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.20 x 6.00 x 5.70 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.25 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Young Adult Fiction |
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