I really enjoyed the story being told through her perspective as it makes you remember the age of our main character. Writing Style: This story is told in first person through the perspective of our main character, Omega. I love that you can feel the amount of love everyone has for each other seeping out of this book. I love how supportive each of the characters are of her and how they are supportive regardless of her differences. I really loved the relationship that each of the characters that are introduce have with our main character, Omega. Right off the bat it is hard not to fall in love with each of the characters that you are introduced to in this story. You get to meet her family, her best friend Carlitos, and a ghost that lives alongside them, Clau. I like how these images bring the story to life and it works really well for me since I have a hard time picturing what I am reading.Ĭharacters: In this story you are introduced to several characters through their interactions with our main character, Omega. Something that I really enjoy about this book is the added images within chapters. I loved the references to Mexican folklore that this book includes because so much of these tales were things that I grew up hearing about. I love that this book is spooky but not too scary to frighten the younger audience. This is a perfect read for second graders and up especially during this spooky season. I am happy to say that I loved this book as much as the young adult books if not more. But also prior to this thought, I was so happy to see that the author had now written a middle grade book since I loved her two young adult books so much. I am glad to tell you all that this story is not about lettuce at all but that would have been funny. Thoughts and Themes: My first thought is that I keep reading Lechuza as Lechuga and was really confused about there being a legend regarding lettuce that I hadn’t heard about. Omega will have to decide what’s more important-trusting the instincts of others or learning to trust in herself.Ĭontent Warning: bullying and grief Book Links Suddenly Omega’s magic begins to change, and the key to understanding her powers is more complicated than she thought. When a witch with the power to transform herself into an owl-known in Mexican folklore as La Lechuza-shows up unannounced, Omega, her best friend Clau (who happens to be a ghost), and her cousin Carlitos must conduct a séance under a full moon in order to unravel the mystery of the legend. But Omega’s powers don’t quite work, and it leaves her feeling like an outsider in her own family. So Omega’s family keeps to themselves, and in private, they’re Empaths-diviners who can read and manipulate the emotions of people and objects around them. But over the years, the town’s reputation for the supernatural is no longer one the people carry with pride. Omega Morales’s family has been practicing magic for centuries in Noche Buena. Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza by Laekan Zea Kempįans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, and Disney’s Encanto will be captivated by this fantastical novel about a girl who must learn to trust her ancestral powers when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza.
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