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312 pp.
| HarperCollins/Walden
| February, 2019
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-249849-6$16.99
(2)
4-6
Love Sugar Magic series.
In the second book set in and around the Logroño family's Amor y Azúcar Panaderia bakery, Leonora's friend Caroline tries her own hand at brujería. In so doing she bungles a spell to see her deceased mother, instead summoning spirits from el Otro Lado. A wide-ranging cast tries to send them back; the result is pure slapstick. Meriano smoothly incorporates universal pre-adolescent issues of friendship and family throughout the novel.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2019
(2)
4-6
Love Sugar Magic series.
Eleven-year-old Leonora Logroño doesn't get to help in her family's bakery. Leo snoops and discovers all her female family members are brujas, or witches. Impatient Leo doesn't want to wait four years for her initiation, so she experiments on her own, with comical results. First-novelist Meriano creates a believable family whose members sprinkle love, affection, and natural domestic gripes as naturally as they mix Spanish and English.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2018
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