Charlie's parents have mysteriously disappeared and his house burned to the ground. He is fortunate that he has been placed in a foster home that is in his school district so that he is able to remain in his school, with his friends, and people who understand him while his life is upside down.
Things seem to be going as normal as they can for Middle School when Charlie sprouts feathers in the middle of third period history class. As he scrambles to find a way to cover his feathery anatomy until he can get home, Charlie is confounded by teachers, friends, and the school bully who all appear determined to expose his freakish secret to the world.
Unexpectedly, the very popular Violet Ray comes to his rescue. Not only does she help Charlie safely escape school and get home, she agrees to help him figure out why he has grown a coat of feathers. And maybe, just maybe, they can discover what happened to Charlie's parents.
As Violet and Charlie look deeper into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his parents, they find themselves sucked into a world where the Latino and Hispanic myths he heard from his Abuela as he was growing up have come to life and are all coming together to pursue him - and the mystery of his parents disappearance is wrapped up in an ancient horror that has come to destroy him.
Can Violet and Charlie discover the key to the mystery before it destroys them and brings and unthinkable darkness to the world?
Note: my library has this catalogued as Children's Fiction. I believe it is appropriate for teens and tweens, grades 5-8.
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Publisher's Author Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Ryan-Calejo/130172738
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