Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
In this graphic novel retelling of an Indigenous Mexican tale, demigod twins must use their magic of song to rescue their father and uncle from the perilous Land of the Dead. A supreme middle-grade adventure!
Brief description:
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas, where he teaches literature and Nahuatl at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Among his forty published books are the multiple-award-winning They Call Me Güero, Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, and The Prince & the Coyote, as well as the series Garza Twins, 13th Street, and Clockwork Curandera. He is the current president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
Review Quotes:
"Volume 3 of David Bowles' series delivers on the whimsical promise of its immediate predecessor, charting an epic battle of wits and feats in the Maya underworld.... Utterly triumphant." -- Kirkus Reviews
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