by Adrianna Cuevas (Author)
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals.
All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad's latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja, a witch who can absorb an animal's powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner...
Now it's up to Nestor's extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja and save a place he might just call home.
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Adrianna Cuevas es la autora de The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez --novela ganadora del premio de honor Pura Belpré-- y de Cuba in My Pocket. Es una cubanoamericana de primera generación, oriunda de Miami, Florida. Luego de enseñar español y el programa de inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas (ESOL) durante dieciséis años, decidió seguir su pasión de contar historias. Actualmente, Adrianna vive con su esposo y su hijo, en las afueras de Austin, Texas, en donde disfrutan irse de excursión, viajar y cocinar muchísima comida cubana.
Alexis Romay es autor de dos novelas, un libro de sonetos y otro de décimas. Ha traducido al español más de una cuarentena de libros infantiles, así como novelas de Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Stuart Gibbs, Meg Medina, Adrianna Cuevas y, al inglés, de Miguel Correa Mujica. Ha escrito letras para canciones de Paquito D'Rivera. Vive en Nueva Jersey con su esposa, su hijo y su perra.