Kitty Felde
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"Legend has it: anyone who sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill will be cursed with bad luck. 10-year-old Fina Mendoza just saw it. And the last thing her family needs right now is more bad luck. Fina and her older sister Gabby just moved to Washington, D.C. to live full time with Papa, a Congressman from California. Fina loves spending more time with Papa - even though he's always on the phone. But after Fina encounters a mysterious cat, disasters...
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A mysterious bird poops on the president's head during the State of the Union address. The bird could be a Chickcharney, the legendary bird from the Caribbean, which may have come to Washington to deliver a secret message. Is it for the president? Or Congress? Or for Fina\u2019s friend, a cashier at the Capitol snack bar? Or maybe it's a message for Fina from her mom who passed away not so many months ago. Fina gets detecting help from a pair of congressional...
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Features a Latina protagonist of spunk and smarts whose congressman father is on the House floor on January 6, 2021. Fina Mendoza, our amateur detective, is in the middle of an investigation to find out who stole the 5th grade pizza. But all thoughts of detection go out the window as she, her sister Gabby, and grandmother Abuelita watch on television as a mob breaks into the Capitol. Is Papa okay? Most of Fina's classmates have parents who work inside...
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Las leyendas dicen que si ves el gato demonio del Capitolio, estás maldecido por la mala suerte. Fina Mendoza, de diez años, acaba de verlo. ¡Y lo último que su familia necesita ahora es una maldición!
Fina y su hermana mayor Gabby acaban de mudarse a Washington, D.C. después de la muerte de su madre para vivir con papá, un congresista de California. Pero entonces se encuentra cara a cara con un gato misterioso en la Cripta del Capitolio. ¿Es...