The Land of Stories meets Dominican myths and legends come to life in Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa , a blockbuster contemporary middle-grade fantasy duology starter from Julian Randall.
Pilar will have to go toe-to-toe with the fearsome Dominican boogeyman, El Cuco, if she has any hope of freeing Natasha and getting back home..
She lands on Zafa, an island swarming with coconut-shaped demons, butterfly shapeshifters, and a sinister magical prison where her cousin is being held captive. and gets sucked into the blank page within. . .
After snooping around the professor\'s empty office, she discovers a folder with her cousin\'s name on it .
When Pilar hears that Lorena\'s professor studies such disappearances, she hops on the next train to dig deeper into her family\'s mystery.
The only constant is Abuela and Mami\'s code of silence around her cousin Natasha--who vanished in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillo dictatorship.
Her Chicago neighborhood is gentrifying and her chores have doubled since her sister, Lorena, left for college. --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award Winner Twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Purp Ramirez\'s world is changing, and she doesn\'t care for it one bit. sure to delight and awe. . . --Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author of the Tristan Strong series As funny as it is poignant. readers better hold on tight. . .
A breathtaking journey .
Fans of Tristan Strong and The Storm Runner , here is your next obsession.
The Land of Stories meets Dominican myths and legends come to life in Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa , a blockbuster contemporary middle-grade fantasy duology starter from Julian Randall
