Next, there’s no Internet, so the questions he keeps track of in his notebook (over 400 so far) will have to go un-Googled. Lively, endearing, and full of character.Įleven-year-old Brooklynite Genie has “worry issues,” so when he and his older brother, Ernie, are sent to Virginia to spend a month with their estranged grandparents while their parents “try to figure it all out,” he goes into overdrive.įirst, he discovers that Grandpop is blind. With strong ties to Mesoamerican lore and culture, the story hits the sweet spot between dark and light. There’s the small problem of her not wanting to actually bea dark witch, but she’ll just fake it and no one will be the wiser, right? Set in a fantasy world filled with figures from Aztec mythology, this culturally rich adventure weaves Spanish and Nahuatl throughout the text. Her family mourns, but Cece is determined to get Juana back-but she’ll have to enter the Bruja Fights for aspiring dark witches to get into Devil’s Alley, where El Sombrerón lives. Before Cece can stop him from playing, her sister, Juana, is entranced by his song and kidnapped. Now 12, Cece encounters the Bride Stealer El Sombrerón, another criatura, whose magic guitar bewitches young women. Before Tzizimitl flees, freed by Cece, she observes that Cece has a soul like water-perhaps not what you want as Sun god descendants. She walks Cece home only to be met with angry, murderous townsfolk. At 7, Cece wanders too far into the desert and encounters the Criatura of Stars and Devouring, Tzizimitl, who turns out to be more kindly old woman than scary beast. Some are dark spirits while others, relatively harmless, shape-shift into animals. In Tierra del Sol, criaturas are feared and reviled.
A tween dabbles in dark magic, hoping to do one good deed.
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