While visiting a movie set in Hollywood, the Thea sisters set out in search of a thief who has stolen an important reel of film from the studio.

"Minnie, a long-haired teacup chihuahua, travels to Hollywood with her family, where she gets an unexpected starring role in a movie"--

Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...

"Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen--and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, but...

"Betita, de nueve ąos, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le cont̤ la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los ℓngeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en M̌xico. Los aztecas proced̕an de un lugar llamado Aztl̀n, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitl̀n, la actual Ciudad de M̌xico. Cuenta una profes̕a que...