El Eclipse Total de Néstor López (Spanish Edition)

by Adrianna Cuevas (Author)

El Eclipse Total de Néstor López (Spanish Edition)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

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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2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book
NYPL Best Book of 2020

2020 Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids
A Sunshine State Young Readers Award Book

A charming and vibrant debut fantasy. —Kirkus Reviews

Readers will devour this fast-paced adventure as they root for Nestor and his ragtag bunch of friends and animal allies . . . In a unique take on South and Central American folklore, Cuevas brings to life an earthly type of twisted magic that transcends spells and transfiguration, extending into the feelings of belonging and finding a true home. —Booklist

With this heartwarming debut, Cuevas draws upon Central American legends and her Cuban heritage to flesh out Nestor's experiences . . . crafting a tense, satisfying tale of magic, family, and finding one's true home. —Publisher's Weekly

Cuevas crafts a riveting story based on folktales from Panama and Costa Rica. —School Library Journal

A marvelous, magical mystery that deftly blends family, friends and folklore. —David Bowles, author of Pura Belpré Honor Book and Walter Dean Myers Honor Book They Call Me Güero and Pura Belpré Honor Book The Smoking Mirror

Mystery, adventure, humor, friendship, and...talking animals—The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez has it all! Readers will love this funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story. —Celia C. Pérez, author of the Pura Belpre Honor book The First Rule of Punk and Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers

Adrianna Cuevas

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.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250843692
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
September 20, 2022
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
JUV012070 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables | Caribbean & Latin American
Library of Congress categories
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