The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía

By Alexandra Alessandri

Siblings must navigate a mythical land to save their father from a powerful creature.

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224 pages· 52,930 words· Est. 7.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Valentina and Julián are thrust into a world where Colombian legends come alive. To save their father, they must journey through this magical realm and confront the formidable madremonte, who holds the key to their return. But with the madremonte's deep-seated hatred for humans, can they find a way back home before it's too late? As they face mythical creatures and treacherous paths, the siblings must rely on each other and their wits to survive this fantastical adventure.

From the publisher

Encanto meets The Chronicles of Narnia by way of Colombian folklore in this middle grade fantasy adventure. To save their father’s life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of mythical creatures and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all: the madremonte. Twelve-year-old Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world around her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day, but Papi has spent his life studying Colombia’s legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. So when Papi hears that a patasola–a vampire woman with one leg–has been sighted in the Andes, Valentina and her younger brother Julián get dragged along on another magical creature hunt. While they’re in the Andes, a powerful earthquake hits. Valentina and Julián fall through the earth…and find an alternate Colombia where, to Valentina’s shock, all the legends are real. To get home, Valentina and Julián must make a treacherous journey to reach this land’s ruler: the madremonte, mother and protector of the earth. She controls the only portal back to the human world–but she absolutely hates humans, and she’ll do anything to defend her land.

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