02832cam a2200469 i 4500 1471002593 TxAuBib 20240731120000.0 230926s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023934235 9780063285491 hbk. 0063285495 hbk. (OCoLC)1357014001 TxAuBib rda Cuevas, Adrianna, author. Mari and the curse of el cocodrilo / Adrianna Cuevas. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 246 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than sneering words at school: a curse of bad luck from El Cocodrilo. At first, it's just possessed violins and grade sabotaging pencils, but once El Cocodrilo learns that he becomes more powerful with each new misery, her luck goes from bad to nightmarish as the curse spreads to her friend Keisha. Instead of focusing on Mari's mariachi band tryout and Keisha's fencing tournament, the pair, along with their friend Juan Carlos, are racing against the clock to break the curse. But when Mari discovers her family's gift to call upon their ancestors, she and her friends will have to find a way to work with the unexpected help that arrives from the far corners of Mari's family tree. Only will it be enough to defeat El Cocodrilo before he makes their last year of elementary school the worst ever and tears their friendship apart?"-- Provided by publisher. 3-7. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.4 8.0 522461. 20240731. Fortune Juvenile fiction. Cuban American families Juvenile fiction. Cuban American families Fiction. Students Juvenile fiction. Students Fiction. Superstition Juvenile fiction. Psychic ability Juvenile fiction. Psychic ability Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Luck Fiction. Superstition Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Paranormal fiction. fast Fiction. lcgft QS7