He still has to monitor his diabetes with his private med kit and his emergency pack of Skittles. Unfortunately, Sal’s problems did not stop when he moved from Connecticut. Sal gets to study for his dream job: becoming the world’s greatest magician, while his classmates are all dancers, musicians, actors, costume designers and even a film director creating a cinematic masterpiece on the history of wedgies. It’s never easy to switch schools, even if Culeco Academy of the Arts seems much cooler than his old school.

well, let’s just say things got complicated when Sal’s mom, his real mom, changed from Mami Viva to Mami Muerta. He’s recently moved to from Connecticut to Miami with his dad and American Stepmom because. You’ll just have to dive into the story and find out for yourself. something scarier? Something that might rip apart the universe and cause a cosmic mess so big even a super custodian like Mr. Was it sleight-of-hand? Was it actual magic? Was it, oh, I don’t know. You definitely wouldn’t believe me if I told you how that dead chicken got in Yasmany’s locker. Doctorpants dresses like a gumball machine, or even why Sal’s physicist father and his not-quite-human assistant Bonita are building a remembranation machine in the living room. I could try to explain why Gabi’s father is called Lightning Dad, or why Sal’s teacher Dr. When I can’t even describe it to you without ruining the marvelous surprises. You know how I can tell when a book is great? Sal and Gabi’s Excellent Universe-Destroying Adventure

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 this mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter. 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?

Gabi and sal break the universe