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Calejo, Ryan. CHARLIE HERNANDEZ AND THE LEAGUE OF SHADOWS New York : Aladdin, 2018. IL 6-8 ISBN 9781534426580 |
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After sprouting horns and feathers, Charlie Hernandez realizes that all those myths his grandmother has told him might just be real. This happens right at the same time that his home burns down and his parents have gone missing. Charlie and his friend Violet embark on a journey discovering that Charlie’s life is linked to the balance between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Charlie encounters characters from Mexican-American, Guatemalan, and Brazilian myths and he travels through parts of Florida and the mythological world. He is trying to hide all the things changing about himself from his friends while searching for his parents, code switching his language between monsters, translating for Violet, and trying desperately to find and save his parents. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Shapeshifting -- Juvenile fiction. Folklore -- Latin America -- Juvenile fiction. Secret societies -- Juvenile fiction. Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction. Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction. Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction. |
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