Book
3 of 3 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Pilar Ramirez and the escape from Zafa
Call Number
- J RAND (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
Physical Description
285 pages : map ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6. Henry Holt and Company.
Series
Summary
While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillo--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican boogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago. Includes author's note.
Subjects
- Folklore > Dominican Republic > Juvenile fiction.
- Dominican Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Missing persons > Juvenile fiction.
- Memory > Juvenile fiction.
- Animals, Mythical > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Juvenile fiction.
- Magic > Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore > Dominican Republic > Fiction.
- Dominican Americans > Fiction.
- Missing persons > Fiction.
- Memory > Fiction.
- Animals, Mythical > Fiction.
- Family life > Fiction.
- Magic > Fiction.