Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez 2021 Pura Belpr Honor Book NYPL Best Book

2021 Pura Belpr Honor Book NYPL Best Book of 20202020 Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids In this magical middlegrade 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 dads latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low.

He definitely doesnt 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 viejaa witch who can absorb an animals powers by biting it during a solar eclipse.

And the next eclipse is just around the corner Now its up to Nestors extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule viejaand save a place he might just call home.