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Pilar Ramirez and the escape from Zafa / Julian Randall.

Summary:

"Twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta ٢Purp٣ Ramirez's world is changing, and she doesn't care for it one bit. Her Chicago neighborhood is gentrifying and her chores have doubled since her sister, Lorena, left for college. The only constant is Abuela and Mami's code of silence around her cousin Natasha-who vanished in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillo dictatorship. When Pilar hears that Lorena's professor studies such disappearances, she hops on the next train to dig deeper into her family's mystery. After snooping around the professor's empty office, she discovers a folder with her cousin's name on it . . . and gets sucked into the blank page within. She lands on Zafa, an island swarming with coconut-shaped demons, butterfly shapeshifters, and a sinister magical prison where her cousin is being held captive. Pilar will have to go toe-to-toe with the fearsome Dominican boogeyman, El Cuco, if she has any hope of freeing Natasha and getting back home."-- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 9781250774101
ISBN: 1250774101
Physical Description: 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	Ages 8-12. Henry Holt and Company. Grades 4-6. Henry Holt and Company. 880L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 10 515848.