Author Claribel Ortega, places this slice of reality into the lives of her main characters within the first few pages of this book. Wouldn’t it be magnificent if there was a club, a hobby, a group, for every one of us? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know with absolute certainty that you belong somewhere? But reality is hard, and hits kids especially hard, when our interests or personalities don’t align with any of the established school, community or social groups available. What readers will experience when immersing themselves in the world of Witchlings
Ortega’s Witchlings offers readers exactly that, elevating the experience to new heights by creating the magical canon of The Twelve Towns, the major setting in Witchlings, based on the Spanish language and mythical beings that will be familiar to Latinx readers. For this reader, a fantastical world is more alluring when it allows me to suspend disbelief as elements of our real world are woven seamlessly with the fantastical and magical circumstances presented in the story.
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