El Espejo Humeante - Paperback

by David Bowles (Author)

Carol y Johnny Garza son gemelos de doce añ os cuyas vidas en un pequeñ o pueblo de Texas cambian para siempre luego de la misteriosa desaparició n de su madre. Enviados a familiares en Mé xico por su afligido padre, los gemelos se enteran de que su madre es una naguala, una cambiaformas, y que han heredado sus poderes. Para rescatarla, tendrá n que descender al inframundo azteca y enfrentarse a los peligros que les aguardan.

Author Biography

David Bowles is a product of a Mexican-American family and has lived most of his life in deep South Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Recipient of awards from the American Library Association, Texas Institute of Letters, and Texas Associated Press, he has written several books, most significantly the ALA Pura Belpré Honor Book, The Smoking Mirror. Additionally, his work has been published in venues including Rattle, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Metamorphoses, Translation Review, Concho River Review, Huizache, Journal of Children's Literature, Asymptote, Eye to the Telescope, and Newfound.