Accompanied by Carlitos and their best friend Clau, a ghost from Venezuela, Omega digs deeper into the terrifying mystery behind folkloric witch La Lechuza, uncovering long-buried secrets about her own family, and her powers, along the way. When an ex-friend accuses Omega of being behind the recent disappearances of neighborhood cats, she wonders what could be stirring up trouble. While her cousin Carlitos is a natural at controlling his powers, Omega-who's half human as opposed to fully magical-can barely keep her abilities from giving her a stomachache. Mexican 12-year-old Omega Morales feels like the odd one out in the small town of Noche Buena, and in her tight-knit magical family of empaths. This spooky middle-grade debut is full of magic, adventure, friendship, and a captivating heroine who isn’t afraid of the monsters lurking around every corner-even the dangerous La Lechuza! Omega will have to decide what’s more important-trusting the instincts of others or learning to trust in herself. Suddenly Omega’s magic begins to change, and the key to understanding her powers is more complicated than she thought. When a witch with the power to transform herself into an owl-known in Mexican folklore as La Lechuza-shows up unannounced, Omega, her best friend Clau (who happens to be a ghost), and her cousin Carlitos must conduct a séance under a full moon in order to unravel the mystery of the legend. But Omega’s powers don’t quite work, and it leaves her feeling like an outsider in her own family. So Omega’s family keeps to themselves, and in private, they’re Empaths-diviners who can read and manipulate the emotions of people and objects around them. But over the years, the town's reputation for the supernatural is no longer one the people carry with pride. Omega Morales’s family has been practicing magic for centuries in Noche Buena. Milagros never came back, or so they thought.Fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, and Disney's Encanto will be captivated by this fantastical novel about a girl who must learn to trust her ancestral powers when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza. As she did, a white bird the size of her carried her into the midnight sky and all that was left was a big white feather on the ground. Milagros’s eyes lit up, she ran to the door without thinking, opened it and stepped out. After two hours had passed, they began to hear a faint scratch on the window. Being a curandera, she had always wanted to hear the story from the Lechuza herself. She knew things were never as they seemed. She always needed to know the when, they why, the how. See, Milagros was a curandera, she was one of those women who liked to challenge everything, she liked to think for herself. Elena was 9 years old when her aunt Milagros decided to summon La Lechuza, when midnight hit, Milagros began her whistles. But she couldn’t stop thinking about what happened the last time La Lechuza came to her house. Being a curandera she had driven away evil spirits countless times. “What did I do? Hay, Dios mio, help me please.” Elena wasn’t sure which story she believed, but she was sure something was here.
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