La Selva (Forest World) - Margarita Engle

nNow in Spanish, award-winning author Margarita Engle's lively middle grade novel in verse about a Cuban-American boy who visits his family's village in Cuba for the first time--and meets a sister he didn't know he had. nEdver isn't happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows. Yet now that travel laws have changed and it's a lot easier for divided families to be reunited, his mom thinks it's time for some father-son bonding. n nEdver doesn't know what this summer has in store, but he's definitely not expecting to meet a sister he didn't know existed Luza is a year older and excited to see her little brother, until she realizes how different their lives have been. Looking for anything they might have in common, they sneak onto the internet--and accidentally catch the interest of a dangerous wildlife poacher.

Edver has fought plenty of villains in video games. Now, to save the Cuban jungle they love, he and Luza are going to have to find a way to conquer a real villain n nA Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo env en a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho m s f cil reunir a las familias divididas, su mam piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos. n nEdver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sab a que exist a Luza es un a o mayor y est muy entusiasmada por conocer a su hermanito, hasta que se da cuenta de cu n diferentes han sido sus vidas.

A la busca de cualquier cosa que puedan tener en com n, se meten en internet y accidentalmente atraen la atenci n de un peligroso cazador de animales salvajes. Edver ha luchado contra much simos villanos en los videojuegos. Ahora, para salvar la selva que tanto quieren, Luza y l tendr n que encontrar un modo de derrotar a un villano realn