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A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who
befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his
island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his
family's history in the process. This new middle grade standalone
mystery from the author of the Muse Squad series is perfect for
fans of Doll Bones and The Girl and the Ghost! Frank Fernandez's
family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate
unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family
moves--a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends.
So when his parents announce they're moving to Spectacle Key,
Florida, to live in a lighthouse--this time for good!--Frank is
thrilled. But Spectacle Key isn't the perfect forever home they'd
imagined. The lighthouse is falling apart. There are knocks on the
door--but no one is there--and mysterious sighs and sniffles from
nowhere. There's even a creepy doll that seems to move on its own.
Could Spectacle Key be haunted? Then one day while exploring, Frank
meets a girl in old-fashioned clothes, with no memory of who she
is. What she does know, though, is that the island is under a
curse--and she needs Frank's help to figure out how to lift it. But
what if learning the truth about Spectacle Key means losing the
first real friend he's ever had?
Two Spartan boys grow up together, and become inseparable friends.
One is a prince of Sparta, destined to rule this ancient Greek
state, the other a slave, or helot, who serves the young prince. In
the harsh training camps, or agoges, where boys are groomed to
become the great warriors of Spartan fame, their skills are honed
and brutally tested. Only citizens may aspire to the warrior's Red
Cloak, and one of the tests is the annual crypteia, or hunting of
the helots. A beautiful and mysterious young Sibyl speaks of an
uprising of the slaves. The Oracles warn of a deadly conflict
between two ruling factions. Evil forces will challenge the two
boys and test their loyalties, as secret truths about their own
identities are revealed.
On the day she is born, Josefina Navarro's nursemaid foretells
misfortune. But for the young socialite in pre-Castro Cuba, her
life in Havana with her Sergeant of police father is idyllic. That
is, until she falls in love with Lorenzo, a penniless man who takes
her away to the impoverished town of El Cotorro, and her father
disowns her. Josefina comes to wish her father dead but regrets it
after the Sergeant is assumed killed in a student-led riot. One
day, mysterious letters from the Sergeant begin to arrive, telling
her the truth about his past. The ghostly letters become her link
to love.
Set in Miami and Cuba and covering nearly fifty years of that
island's history, "Love and Ghost Letters" unfolds the lives of the
members of the Navarro-Concepcion families in the patterns and
permutations of memory, and conjures a Cuban setting that evokes
mysticism and magic.
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