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Spare Parts Audiobook Summary

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

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Spare Parts Audiobook Narrator

Will Damron is the narrator of Spare Parts audiobook that was written by Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis is the cofounder of Epic Magazine and longtime writer at Wired, where his work was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing. He is the executive producer of the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series Little America, which tells stories of immigrants across the United States. He is also the author of The Underdog, a memoir about his experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, and matador. He lives in San Francisco with his family.

About the Author(s) of Spare Parts

Joshua Davis is the author of Spare Parts

Spare Parts Full Details

Narrator Will Damron
Length 6 hours 51 minutes
Author Joshua Davis
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date December 02, 2014
ISBN 9781427261915

Subjects

The publisher of the Spare Parts is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Education, Multicultural Education

Additional info

The publisher of the Spare Parts is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427261915.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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