num_pages: 320
description: Amazon bestseller, Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, a Banks Street Best Children’s Book, a 2022 Américas Award commended title, PEOPLE pick for best children's book of 2022, and hailed as one of the best books for kids by Entertainment Weekly, LOTERIA is an exploration of free will vs fate packaged as an enthralling magical realist adventure.It is the hottest hour of the hottest day in Oaxaca City when Life and Death walk into town, ready to begin a new game of Lotería. But first, they need a pawn, a child whose fate will be determined by the winner of the game: a long and prosperous life or an untimely death. Fate finds this child in a robin-egg blue house, tucked beneath a massive jacaranda tree. And so, the game begins.Every card reveals a new twist in Clara's fate: a tree, a scorpion, a fateful arrow, a mermaid, a deer, a treacherous rose. But Clara knows none of this. All she knows is that her cousin Esteban has vanished, and she’ll do whatever it takes to save him, travelling to the mythical Kingdom of Las Pozas in her search. And although it seems her fate was sealed as soon as the cards were dealt, Clara just might have what it takes to shatter the game and choose a new path.
language: English
title: Lotería
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers