Diamond Park

By Phillippe Diederich

Book Overview

A fast-paced YA novel about four Mexican American teenagers from Houston, a '59 Chevy Impala, and a murder that changes their lives forever.

Flaco isn't the kind of kid who gets in trouble. He doesn't want to give his mom or his aunt Ana Flor any grief--they've had enough since his cousin Carlos died serving in Afghanistan. But he finds a whole lot more trouble than he bargained for when he and his friends Tiny, Maga?a, and Susi ride the bus from their Houston neighborhood to Diamond Park to buy a used car. And not just any car--a 1959 Impala convertible, a dream car. The transaction gets complicated fast, and Susi ends up with a knife in her hands, covered in blood. When Tiny has to disappear to avoid ICE, Flaco and Maga?a head south in the Impala to set things right. In a wildly impetuous move, the two boys cross into Mexico hunting for a trafficker named Anaconda, the man they believe is the real killer, to clear Susi's name. In a breathtaking, seat-of-your-pants adventure they manage to kidnap him but in the process they discover how little they ever actually understood about what really happened in Diamond Park.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593354257
• ISBN13: 9780593354254
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher