By Xavier Garza
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ISBN-13: 9781558858169
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Publisher: Pinata Books
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Imprint: Pinata Books
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Publication date: Oct 31, 2015
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Language of text: English, Spanish
Margarito is eleven years old now and he's
way past believing in Grandpa Ventura's ghost stories, but he loves listening
to them anyway. One evening on his way home from his grandfather's, Margarito
finds himself alone in the gathering dusk, crossing a narrow bridge. Suddenly,
a woman in white floats towards him and calls, "Come to me, child ? come
to me!" He frantically hides in the shallow river, but soon sees a pair of
yellow, glowing eyes swimming towards him. Before long, the Donkey Lady and La
Llorona are circling each other, fighting to claim poor Margarito as their next
victim!
Popular storyteller Xavier Garza returns with
another collection of eerie tales full of creepy creatures from Latin American
lore. There are duendes, bald, green-skinned brutes with sharp teeth;
thunderbirds, giant pterodactyl-like things that discharge electricity from
their wings during thunderstorms; and blood-sucking beasts that drain every
single drop of blood from their victims' bodies!
Set in contemporary times, Garza's young
protagonists deal with much more than just the supernatural: there are
chupacabras and drug dealers, witches and bullies, a jealous cousin and the
devil. Accompanied by the author's dramatic black and white illustrations, the
short, blood-curdling stories in this bilingual collection for ages 8 ? 12 are
sure to bewitch a whole new generation of young people.
Also by Xavier Garza
Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys
The stories in this collection curdle with
the creepy and crawling characters of traditional folklore. These stories brim
with the supernatural: the mysterious disappearance of children who made deals
with duendes, evil trolls who live inside the walls of our houses; the ghostly
specter of La Llorona who floats along the creek bed, howling, "¡Ay, mis
hijos!"; witches that turn into great white owls; a severed hand that
hurtles across floors and catches a death grip; and even the Devil himself harvesting
wayward souls.
Kid Cyclone Fights
the Devil and Other Stories / Kid Ciclon Se Enfrenta a El Diablo Y Otras
Historias
Popular kids' book author Xavier Garza
returns with another collection of stories featuring spooky characters from
Mexican-American folklore. There's a witch that takes the shape of a snake in
order to poison and punish those who disregard her warnings; green-skinned,
red-eyed creatures called chupacabras that suck the blood from wild pigs, but
would just as soon suck the blood from a human who has lost his way in the
night; a young girl disfigured in a fire set by a scorned lover who gets her
revenge as the Donkey Lady; and the Elmendorf Beast, said to have the head of a
wolf with skin so thick it's impervious to shotgun blasts.
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