Glorieta Espinosa doesn't hate that Papi married Alice, the nice white woman from Texas, or the fact that he's happy again after years of mourning Mamá. But she hates that the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. She hates that there even is an urn—if only her Tía Diosonita, the town patrona, would put aside her belief that suicide is a sin, Mamá could be buried with her family and her community. If everything about Glory's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: this year, she wants to greet Mamá's spirit during los Días de los Muertos—something that's only possible if Mamá's ashes can be buried. So with the help of her best friend Mojo and her prankster cousin Riley, Glory sets out to change her Tía's mind. To do so, she'll have to learn to let hate go—and to love the people who stand in her way. In lovely prose that sparkles with magical undertones, author...

Praise for the Gadgets and Gears series: "Fast paced and funny . . . carries hints of both Lemony Snicket's wordplay and the absurdity of M. T. Anderson's Pals in Peril." —Booklist Wally and Noodles are back to the business of scientific innovation—and fun. In London, they meet a young pickpocket named Dobbin who works for a mysterious criminal called the Tick-Tock Man. Soon they are racing through secret tunnels in a bid to help Dobbin's little sister. Can the brave boy-scientist and his loyal sidekick find the one person who can save her before it's too late? History and technology collide in this humorous series brimming with mad science.