Chasing the Jaguar

By: Michele Dominguez Greene

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Hardcover | 25 October 2006

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Girl next door . . . or Mayan sorceress ?

Martika Gálvez's "To Do" list:

1. Research final project for art class–on the jaguar

2. Study the arts of telepathy (ESP) and pyrokinesis (starting fires at will)

3. Build an altar and pray to Mayan deities

4. Use psychic powers to recover stolen ancient statue and help rescue abducted teen girl...

5. and convince Mom I'm really studying at the library

Introducing Martika Gálvez, the Latina Nancy Drew of the new millennium.

Ages 12+

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Combining ancient mysticism with urban Los Angeles, author Greene, formerly an actress on L.A. Law, introduces novice crime-fighter Martika Galvez. As the teen Latina with the cat-like eyes approaches her 15th birthday, her strange dreams increase in frequency and strength. When her mother's wealthy employer, a shady car dealer who operates in the black market, sells an unusual jaguar statue stolen from a Mayan temple to the wrong buyer, resulting in the kidnapping of his teenage daughter, Jennifer, Martika believes that her dreams are connected. Under the guidance of T'a Tell'n, the barrio "witch," Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of Mayan curanderas, or female shamans. While discovering such abilities as telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis and shape-shifting, Martika begins to put them to use to save Jennifer and recover the statue. This jaguar snores, not roars, as flat, stereotyped characters and a storyline that reads like most primetime television dramas ruin a great premise. (Fiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

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