The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

Written by Adrianna Cuevas

A boy must stop a witch stealing animal powers during an eclipse.

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282 pages· 45,716 words· Est. 6.5 hour read

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Nestor Lopez, a Cuban American boy with a secret ability to talk to animals, faces a mysterious threat in his new town. As animals vanish and his grandmother is blamed, Nestor discovers a witch, the tule vieja, is behind it all, seeking to absorb animal powers during an impending solar eclipse. With time running out, Nestor must harness his unique gift and rally his friends to stop the witch and protect his new home. Can he save the town and finally find a place to belong?

From the publisher

In this magical middle-grade debut novel from Adrianna Cuevas, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals. All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor’s grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja–a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner… Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja–and save a place he might just call home.

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