Title: Chasing the Jaguar
Description: Think you have issues? Try these on for size:

Your parents are separated, and Dad's already taking vacations with his new girlfriend. You and Mom share a small apartment in a gang-ridden neighborhood. You go to school with a bunch of spoiled rich kids. >You have recurring nightmares about a creepy jaguar. You're hearing strange voices and worry you may be going crazy. Your big quinceañera "surprise" is finding out you're a curandera, or witch.... and as if that's not bad enough, your psychic powers land you smack in the middle of a kidnapping case involving an ancient Mayan statue . . . and it's up to you to solve the mystery.
Meet Martika Gálvez, the Latina Nancy Drew of the new millennium.
Subjects: Fiction, Indians of Central America, Kidnapping, Mayas, Mystery and detective stories, Quinceañera (Social custom), Self-realization, Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Children's fiction, Indians of central america, fiction, Kidnapping, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Indians of mexico, mayas, fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)