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While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago. Includes...
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Dominican American girl Ani loves swimming in the sea and in the pool. Her father secretly lets her join the swim team but they don't tell Ani's mother because her brother died in the water of a hurricane years ago and she would be upset. However, when Ani's joints swell up, she's forced to visit the doctor and tell what she's been doing. Ani is diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but fortunately her doctor believes that swimming and medication...