Emmaline and the Bunny

Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

The Mapmakers' Race

Sylvia Long's Thumbelina

The Terror of the Southlands (Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, 2)

To Be A Cat

Dolphin Song

The Sign of the Cat

A Mexican American teen discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien life.

It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as “an unfortunate incident.”

Sia knows that her mom must be dead, but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home.

Then one night, under a million stars, Sia’s life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia’s car…and it’s carrying her mom, who’s very much alive.

As Sia races to save her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien soldiers, she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Emmaline and the Bunny

Katherine Hannigan, 2009

Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

Alex Bell, 2019

The Mapmakers' Race

Eirlys Hunter, Kirsten Slade, 2018

Sylvia Long's Thumbelina

Sylvia Long, 2010

The Terror of the Southlands (Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, 2)

Dave Phillips, Caroline Carlson, 2014

To Be A Cat

Matt Haig, 2012

Dolphin Song

Lauren St. John, 2007

The Sign of the Cat

Lynne Jonell, 2015