Thursday November 20, 2008
Jamie Martinez Wood will be joining us to chat with the 6th Grade class at Riverhead Charter School on Long Island, NY.
Biography:
Jamie Martinez Wood is a former assistant to reknown literary agent Julie Castiglia, Jamie Martinez Wood. She is the author of Rogelia’s House of Magic and has written for young adult and nonfiction categories, including The Enchanted Diary, Como Te Llamas, Baby? and A to Z of Latino Americans: Latino Writers and Journalists, for which she recently won the 2008 International Latino Book Awards for Best Reference Book.
She lives in California with her husband and children. This is her first novel. You can visit her at www.jamiewood.com.
Rogelia’s House of Magic
IN ROGELIA’S HOUSE OF MAGIC, three different 15-year-old girls find friendship and special powers as they are trained in the ways of the curandera by a wise old woman.
When Rogelia becomes a maid at Marina Peralta’s home, it’s obvious to Marina and her friend Fern that they have a real mystic on their hands. Soon Rogelia agrees to teach the girls the magic of their ancestors, much as she taught her granddaughters, Xochitl and Gracielia. Even though Marina and Fern are thrilled to have this chance to understand and use their powers, Xochitl isn’t happy about sharing such a sacred thing with anyone but her sister, who perished in a car accident. Besides, magic has let Xochitl down before. Why wouldn’t it now? But, as the girls will eventually discover, at Rogelia’s House of Magic anything is possible.
