Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Davis, Joshua
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Davis, Joshua

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young...
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Author: Joshua Davis
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Davis, Joshua

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

$38.83
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Davis, Joshua

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

$38.83
Author: Joshua Davis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as the country tried to kick them out.

Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . .

In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much--but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot.

And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a level competition--and yet, against all odds . . . they won!

But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story--which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement--will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan.

Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
New York Times Best Seller

Author: Joshua Davis
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374534981

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 180664 / Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014 pg. 55
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014 pg. 80
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 105
Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 8

About the Author
Joshua Davis is a contributing editor at Wired, cofounder of Epic magazine, and the author of The Underdog, a memoir about his experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, and matador. In 2014, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing. He has also written for The New Yorker and other periodicals, and his writing is anthologized in the 2012 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing as well as in the 2006, 2007, and 2009 editions of Best Technology Writing. The movie Spare Parts is based on his reporting. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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