"Monsters, mayhem, and a little family magic will have readers rooting
for Valentina!" -- Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author
It takes a special person to end up in detention on the last day of
school.
It takes a REALLY special person to accidentally burn down the school
yard while chasing a fire-breathing chipmunk.
But nothing about Valentina Salazar has ever been "normal." The Salazars
are protectors, tasked with rescuing the magical creatures who sometimes
wander into our world, from grumpy unicorns to chupacabras... to the
occasional fire-breathing chipmunk.
When Val's father is killed during a rescue mission gone wrong, her
mother decides it's time to retire from their life on the road. She
moves the family to a boring little town in upstate New York and enrolls
Val and her siblings in real school for the first time.
But Val is a protector at heart and she can't give up her calling. So
when a mythical egg surfaces in a viral video, Val convinces her
reluctant siblings to help her find the egg before it hatches and wreaks
havoc. But she has some competition: the dreaded monster hunters who'll
stop at nothing to destroy the creature... and the Salazar family.