Loteria
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, [2024]
Format: Audiobooks
Description: 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
The turn of a card could change your destiny in this captivating middle grade adventure based on the Loteria card game and perfect for fans of Coco. While searching for her missing cousin, a young girl is transported to a mythical kingdom, becoming entangled in a perilous game of chance. "A magical, philosophical tale rooted in Mexican lore." --School Library Journal, starred review In the hottest hour of the hottest day of the year, a fateful wind blows into Oaxaca City. It whistles down cobbled streets and rustles the jacaranda trees before slipping into the window of an eleven-year-old girl named Clara. Unbeknownst to her, Clara has been marked for la Loteria. Life and Death deal the Loteria cards but once a year, and the stakes could not be higher. Every card reveals a new twist in Clara's fate--a scorpion, an arrow, a blood-red rose. If Life wins, Clara will live to a ripe old age. If Death prevails, she'll flicker out like a candle. But Clara knows none of this. All she knows is that her young cousin Esteban has vanished, and she'll do whatever it takes to save him, traveling to the mythical Kingdom of las Pozas, where every action has a price, and every choice has consequences. And though it seems her fate is sealed, Clara just might have what it takes to shatter the game and choose a new path. Karla Arenas Valenti weaves an adventure steeped in magic and mythology exploring the notion of free will in a world where fate holds all the cards.
Other Authors:
Corzo, Frankie, narrator.
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
Corzo, Frankie, narrator.
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
Subjects:
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
Loteria (Game) -- Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
Loteria (Game) -- Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
Target Audience: Grades 3 - 6.
ISBN:
9798822683013
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C PLAYAWAY Valenti | Main (Downtown) | Children's Playaway | Out (Due: ) |
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Previously released by Penguin Random House.
Read by Frankie Corzo.
Sound files.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Previously released by Penguin Random House.
Read by Frankie Corzo.
Sound files.