Masi's barrio is wasting away. An entrepreneur comes to the rescue. But why? And his son has nice soft lips.

It's crazy! Fifteen-year-old Masi Burciaga's neighborhood is becoming more and more of a ghost town since the lard company moved away. Her school closed down. Her family's bakery and the other surviving businesses may soon follow. As a last resort, the neighborhood grown-ups enlist all the remaining able-bodied boys and girls to haul bricks to help build a giant pyramid in the park in hopes of luring visitors. Maybe their neighbors will come back too. But something's not right about the entrepreneur behind it all. Then there's the new boy who came to help, the one with the softest of lips.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 10/14/2014
ISBN: 9781935955764
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
School Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 148
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 170053 / Pig Park
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 6