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Middle Grade Fiction – Fantasy amp; Magic – Ages 8-12\nPublished: 10\/3\/2023\nIt takes a special person to end up in detention on the last day of school.\nIt takes a REALLY special person to accidentally burn down the school yard while chasing a fire-breathing chipmunk.\nBut nothing about Valentina Salazar has ever been \”normal.\” The Salazars are protectors, tasked with rescuing the magical creatures who sometimes wander into our world, from grumpy unicorns to chupacabras… to the occasional fire-breathing chipmunk.\nWhen Val’s father is killed during a rescue mission gone wrong, her mother decides it’s time to retire from their life on the road. She moves the family to a boring little town in upstate New York and enrolls Val and her siblings in real school for the first time.\nBut Val is a protector at heart and she can’t give up her calling. So when a mythical egg surfaces in a viral video, Val convinces her reluctant siblings to help her find the egg before it hatches and wreaks havoc. But she has some competition: the dreaded monster hunters wholl stop at nothing to destroy the creature… and the Salazar family.\nMonsters, mayhem, and a little family magic will have readers rooting for Valentina! — Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author\nAUTHOR BIO:\nZoraida Crdova is the award-winning author of the Brooklyn Brujas series, The Vicious Deep trilogy, andStar Wars: A Crash of Fate. She has contributed stories to theNew York Timesbestselling anthologyStar Wars: From a Certain Point of View, andToil amp; Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft. Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York.
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