With this first installment in her young adult book series of quirky, sci-fi takes on common fairy tales, Marissa Meyer invitations readers into the globe of is actually a Newbery Medal-successful science fiction and mystery novel set in late-nineteen seventies New York City. Our protagonist is Miranda Sinclair, a seemingly ordinary sixth grader,

As La Bruja de los Pasteles, the pastry witch of San Juan Capistrano, Graciela has the capacity to know just what confection a purchaser needs when they wander from the doorways of her relatives’s pastelería. With this reward, she serves treats that grant consumers courage, hope or self confidence. But soon after an evening the place both equall