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The ghosts of Rancho Espanto / Adrianna Cuevas.

by Cuevas, Adrianna.

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Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.

Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.

Ranches -- Juvenile fiction

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Cuban Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

9780374390433 (hc.)

Ages 8-12. Farrar Straus Giroux.

Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.

Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined--a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their game, and his mom's quesitos in Miami. Life at Rancho Espanto isn't as bad as Rafa initially expected, mostly due to Jennie, a new friend with similarly strong snack opinions, and Marcus, the veteran barn manager who's not as gruff as he appears. But when Rafa's work at the ranch is inexplicably sabotaged by a man who may not be what he seems, Rafa and Jennie explore what's behind the strange events at Rancho Espanto--and discover that the greatest mystery may have been with Rafa all along.

Mystery fiction, Juvenile.

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