Lowriders in Space

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1452121559 ISBN13: 9781452121550 Release Date: November 2014 Publisher: Chronicle Books Length: 112 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.3" Age Range: 8 to 12 years Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7 Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders--cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash--just what the team needs to open their own shop Ay chihuahua What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in the universe? Striking, unparalleled art from debut illustrator Raul the Third recalls ballpoint-pen-and-Sharpie desk-drawn doodles, while the story is sketched with Spanish, inked with science facts, and colored with true friendship. With a glossary at the back to provide definitions for Spanish and science terms, this delightful book will educate and entertain in equal measure.