Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents author Tehlor Kay Mejia\'s thrilling adventure based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona, now in paperback.
Her Twitter handle is @tehlorkay..
She is the author of two middle grade novels about Paola Santiago as well as the YA fantasy novels We Set the Dark on Fire and We Unleash the Merciless Storm .
When she\'s not writing, you can find her plucking at her guitar, stealing rosemary sprigs from overgrown gardens, or trying to make the perfect vegan tamale.
About author(s): Tehlor Kay Mejia is an Oregon native in love with the alpine meadows and evergreen forests of her home state, where she lives with her daughter.
Part ghost story, part family story, and part hero quest, this exciting and imaginative tale will transport readers to another world.
Pao has always relied on hard science to make sense of the world, but to find her friend she will have to enter the world of her nightmares, which includes unnatural mist, mind-bending monsters, and relentless spirits controlled by a terrifying force that defies both logic and legend. . . .
But when Emma never arrives and Pao sees a shadowy figure in the reeds, it seems like maybe her mom was right.
Hating her mother\'s humiliating superstitions and knowing that she and her friends would never venture into the water, Pao organizes a meet-up to test out her new telescope near the Gila, since it\'s the best stargazing spot.
Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths.
It\'s all they\'ve heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. *A new hero\'s fantastic and fantastical adventure--her next appearance can\'t come soon enough.-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river.
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents author Tehlor Kay Mejia\'s thrilling adventure based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona, now in paperback
