April Adventures in Reading Kids Club: Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti
April 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Our Adventures in Reading Kids Club is free and open to all AND the book is 10% off book club pricing. Come on out and join your fellow readers each month for a free pizza party and chat about the selected book.
This month we’re chatting about Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti
($17.99) Book club price: 16.19 Hardcover, 272 pp
Ten-year-old Lola has always lived with magic—enchanted flowers that shift with the seasons, a sandbox that coughs up strange treasures, and playful chaneques only she can see in her Mexico City home. But ever since The Thing That Happened, her brother Alex has grown mysteriously ill, and the great tree at the center of their house has begun to wither along with him.
Convinced the two are connected, Lola seeks answers from a grocery-store oracle and follows the chaneques into Floresta, a hidden realm of wonders, monsters, and ancient myth. There, a young queen guards the secret Lola needs to save Alex. To bring her brother home, Lola must summon courage she never knew she had.
A heartfelt, magical-realist adventure celebrating family, bravery, and the power of love.