Bella - Collector of Cuentos

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bella Montoya a shy New Mexican teenager couldn't be a more unlikely hero of any adventure story. Yet she begins to blossom page by page of this fact meets fantasy novel. Bullied by her schoolmates and mostly ignored by her family she has no friends to speak of and spends her time reading or exploring her family ranch. Until she opens a photo album.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she curiously enters a world hidden to humans but filled with characters from long-told stores of Hispano culture and wisdom nearly forgotten she discovers there's more to her than she thought. She emerges from scary and from charming adventures that give her a new sense of purpose: revive and preserve the folklore of her antepasados. The only obstacles standing in the way of her fulfilling the task the characters of the forest entrusted her with are her lack of confidence and her inability to trust herself.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Filled with age-old tales from generations of Hispano and Mexican American storytellers Bella must confront wily foes such as el Serpiente El Coco and la Llorona but count on her merry and wise allies her Abuela and Tía Jackalope Pierre and Trickster Tom Coyote Don Cacahuate Señor Vaquero and many more.</span></p><p></p>