But when Manu runs to join her mother, she learns that her mother works in an underground clinic and that she never intended to file for asylum for either of them. And Manu’s world crumbles when her adopted grandmother Perlas attacked, and she tells Manu to run. All her life, Manu’s mother told her that they live in hiding because of her father’s powerful family. Manu’s a sheltered undocumented teen who never had friends or attended school but she finds a way to live out her adventures through books and by spying on her neighbor across the street who she calls other Manu. residency that's 's her entire existence.Lobizona a young adult fantasy novel by Romina Garber promises a story about a young Argentine discovering the truth of her heritage, but this novel is way more than that! Nothing in the blurb of Lobizona prepares readers for the rich and imaginative world that they’ll step into. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.Īs Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it's not just her U.S.
A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf.
A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past-a mysterious "Z" emblem-which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Until Manu's protective bubble is shattered. As an undocumented immigrant who's on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her.
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