Maya and the Rising Dark
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Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation—perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s stories or her favorite comics.
When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. Her father is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark—where an army led by the Lord of Shadows, the man from Maya’s nightmares, awaits. Maya herself is a godling, half orisha and half human, and her neighborhood is a safe haven. But now that the veil is failing, the Lord of Shadows is determined to destroy the human world and it’s up to Maya to stop him. She just hopes she can do it in time to attend Comic-Con before summer’s over.
Author's note.
ISBN: 9781328635181
JLG Release: Oct 2020
Sensitive Areas:
Violence: Mild Violence , Language: Mild Language , Language: Infrequent Use
Topics:
Fantasy and magic , Missing persons , African Americans , West African myths , Action and adventure
Book Details
ISBN
9781328635181
First Release
October 2020
Genre
Fic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
8 3/10" x 5 1/2"
Page Count
304
Accelerated Reader
N/AScholastic Reading Counts
Level 4.4; Points: 16;
Lexile
Level 720L
Format
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Violence: Mild Violence , Language: Mild Language , Language: Infrequent Use
Topics
Fantasy and magic, Missing persons, African Americans, West African myths, Action and adventure,
