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El Verano de Las Mariposas

El Verano de Las Mariposas

Current price: $16.95
Publication Date: March 27th, 2018
Publisher:
Tu Books
ISBN:
9781620147863
Pages:
384
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Description

Now in Spanish, this award-winning title from Pura Belpr Award-winning author Guadalupe Garcia McCall's magical retelling of The Odyssey stars fifteen-year-old Odilia, the reluctant leader of her four younger sisters as they set off on a fantastical road trip.

Cuando Odilia y sus cuatro hermanas encuentran un cad ver en un pozo de r o, se embarcan en un viaje heroico para devolver al muerto a su familia en M xico. Pero su regreso a Texas se convierte en una odisea que compite con la epopeya original de Homero.

Con la ayuda sobrenatural de la Llorona mediante un arete m gico, Odilia y sus hermanas menores atraviesan un camino de tribulaciones a la casa de su abuela, a quien no han visto en a os. Para llegar, deben ser m's astutas que una bruja y su malvada trinidad: un enga oso hechicero, un clan de lechuzas medio humanas y un chupacabras sanguinario. Pueden estas fant sticas pruebas preparar a Odilia y a sus hermanas para lo que suceder cuando se enfrentan a su prueba final, volver a casa en el mundo real, donde las diosas y los fantasmas ya no les pueden ayudar?

El verano de las mariposas no es's lo una m gica adaptaci n mexicano-americana de La odisea, sino una celebraci n de hermandad y amor maternal.

About the Author

Guadalupe García McCall is the best-selling author of Summer of the Mariposas and won the Pura Belpré Award for her first novel, Under the Mesquite. She was born in Mexico and moved to Texas as a young girl, keeping close ties with family on both sides of the border. She is a full-time author and abuelita and lives with her husband in South Texas. Find her online at ggmccall.com. David Bowles is a Mexican American author from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. He has written several award-winning titles, most notably The Smoking Mirror and They Call Me Güero. His work has also been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New York Times, School Library Journal, Strange Horizons, English Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children's Literature. In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. He is online at davidbowles.us and on Twitter at @DavidOBowles.