Each Friday I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from our school library, with the SRCSA community. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Oct. 29, 2021 is Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, by Adrianna Cuevas.
When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor Lopez plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want anyone to 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… Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez is a 2021 Honor Book for the Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award.
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