Paola, her friends, and family are positive Latinx representations. Separation from parents is a prominent theme. There's no gore, but blood is mentioned a few times, and in the fantasy realm kids fight ghost-like monsters that ooze green goo from injuries. This book stands alone pretty well, but reading River of Tears first will give a deeper understanding of the characters, and the events in this book will have a greater impact.
The story centers on an international ghost/folktale story about The Hitchhiker. Parents need to know that Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares, by Tehlor Kay Mejia ( We Set the Dark on Fire), is the second folklore-based fantasy in a planned series with lots of nightmarish monsters, evil forces, and creepy, spooky locations. Empty wine bottles seen in a bedroom.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. (Aug.Two minor characters smoke cigarettes. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Complicated emotional development is a particular strength-Paola wrestles with issues of anger and forgiveness, mother-daughter strife, and the new “boy-girl weirdness” between her and Dante en route to becoming a reluctant hero.
With this adventure, Mejia ( We Set the Dark on Fire) draws upon her Latinx heritage to conjure creatures from folklore, such as chupacabras, La Llorona, and disembodied hands, arming Paola and her allies with fantastical weapons and layering in realistic plot points: socioeconomic and immigration concerns, the tension between science and superstition. To track down Emma and save the world, the two must draw upon the strength of their friendship and confront a centuries-old tragedy. The two find refuge with Los Niños de la Luz, an army of child warriors who guard the world’s liminal spaces. When her friend Emma vanishes near the banks of Silver Spring, Ariz.’s Gila River, a place forbidden to Paola because of its history of mysterious disappearances, she and friend Dante investigate, only to be sucked into a realm where monsters out of her mother’s stories stalk them. Twelve-year-old Paola Santiago has always been more comfortable with science and logic than with her mother’s ghost stories, especially due to her history of vivid nightmares.
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