Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the sequel to Tehlor Kay
Mejia's critically acclaimed own-voices novel about science-obsessed
Paola Santiago.
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"Paola is a brilliant, furious girl who often trusts her brain but trips
over her heart."--Sarah Gailey, Hugo and Locus award-winning author of
River of Teeth**
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*Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona,
life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to
her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a
totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto,
around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world.
Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares again, this time set
in a terrifying forest. Even more troubling? At their center is her
estranged father, an enigma of a man she barely remembers. And when
Dante's abuela falls mysteriously ill, it seems that the dad Pao never
knew just might be the key to healing the eccentric old woman.
Pao's search for her father will send her far from home, where she will
encounter new monsters and ghosts, a devastating betrayal, and finally,
the forest of her nightmares. Will the truths her father has been hiding
save the people Pao loves, or destroy them?
Once again Tehlor Kay Mejia draws on her Mexican heritage to tell a
wild and wondrous story that combines creatures from folklore with
modern-day challenges. Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson
and the Olympians, soon to be a series on Disney+.
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**Complete your middle grade collection with these best-selling fan
favorites:
- Rick Riordan Presents Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani
Chokshi
- Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by
Kwame Mbalia
- Rick Riordan Presents Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos
Hernandez
- The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
- The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan
