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Also by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland:

The Magic of Untamed Hearts, January 2026
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Lightning in Her Hands, October 2024
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Witch of Wild Things, September 2023
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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, August 2021
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How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe, August 2021
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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
August 2021
On Sale: August 10, 2021
448 pages
ISBN: 1534448640
EAN: 9781534448643
Kindle: B07Z44G2W1
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Hardcover (August 2020)

Fantasy Magical Realism | Young Adult

“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a Mexican American teen who discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien life.

It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as “an unfortunate incident.”

Sia knows that her mom must be dead, but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home.

Then one night, under a million stars, Sia’s life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia’s car…and it’s carrying her mom, who’s very much alive.

As Sia races to save her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien soldiers, she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous in this stunning and inventive exploration of first love, family, immigration, and our vast, limitless universe.

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