Chantel Acevedo

Muse Squad

1 - The Cassandra Curse (Jul-2020)
2 - The Mystery of the Tenth (Jul-2021)

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  Love and Ghost Letters
  

  • Sep-2005
  • / General Fiction
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  On the outside, Josefina Navarro's life seems fortunate enough -- she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who raises her after the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba's wealthiest districts. She attends society ...

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  Song of the Red Cloak
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Historical
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  Two Spartan boys grow up together, and become inseparable friends. One is a prince of Sparta , destined to rule this ancient Greek state, the other a slave, or helot, who serves the young prince. In the harsh training camps, or agoges, where boys are...

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  A Falling Star
  

  • Aug-2014
  • / Literary
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  Daysy Maria del Pozo and Stella Maris Morales-Quinn both came to the United States as part of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift--Daysy settling in South Florida with her family and Stella starting a new life with her mother and step-father in Pittsburgh. Over...

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  The Distant Marvels
  

  • Apr-2015
  • / Literary
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  The acclaimed Cuban American author of Love and Ghost Letters delivers “a wonderful story about the stories we tell each other” set in 1960s Cuba (San Francisco Chronicle).  Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest in recorded histo...

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  The Milk Brother
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Literary
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  A nineteenth century Spanish princess is determined to publish her tell-all memoir in this “fresh, fast-moving historical fiction from a master storyteller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish co...

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  The Living Infinite
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Historical
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  The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign. After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, he...

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  The Cassandra Curse
  

  • Jul-2020
  • / Fantasy
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  Muse Squad - 1
  

  The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson a...

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  The Mystery of the Tenth
  

  • Jul-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  Muse Squad - 2
  

  The finale of an action-packed middle grade fantasy duology about a young Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson ...

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  The Curse on Spectacle Key
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process. This new middle grade stan...

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