"Encanto meets Oceans 8 in this thrilling finale in the Encantadora duology, following Rosa and her friends as they are caught up in a hair-raising new heist with a monstrous twist.
Rosa Coelho has traveled far from trapping monstros in the lowest city streets of Lua. Ever since her thief crew, the Tea Leaves, successfully heisted from the Ministério dos Monstros, she's been trying to put her trapping skills behind her to become a full-fledged keeper, master of locks and puzzles.
And now she's up against the puzzle of a lifetime. Driven to untangle the cryptic message her lost pai left behind, Rosa and her friends must travel to Sol, the City of Thieves, to compete in a series of challenges that would win her access to the answers she's been looking for.
But when familiar faces return to sow chaos in the competition, the Tea Leaves discover the darkness within the Garden of Monstros is much more treacherous than they ever imagined. Caught between past and future, Lua and Sol, her knowledge as a trapper and her duty as a keeper, Rosa will need to choose the right path to save her found family-and the entire city-before it's too late.
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"An Indies Introduce Pick
"A phenomenal debut."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[A] unique, complex fantasy adventure whose world-building draws inspiration from Portuguese origins."
-Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Encanto meets Oceans 8 in this middle-grade fantasy-adventure, set in a Portuguese-inspired world, following a tween girl who joins a notorious band of thieves to steal a priceless jewel and discovers corruption that must be stopped.
Rosa Coelho has spent her whole life hunting monstros, wandering the city streets with her best friend Tiago, and dreaming of a better life for herself and her grandmother. And in a society that favors the rich and educated, every piece of knowledge comes with a hefty price, even the most basic books Rosa's family needs to trap monstrous.
So when the powerful Ministério dos Monstros threatens her family's struggling Encantadora shop, Rosa only has two weeks to scrape together the money for their debts. It seems like an impossible task…until Rosa tricks her way onto an infamous thief crew as their magical safecracker.
Thrust into the world of high class luxury and betrayal, Rosa is pulled into a scheme with the highest possible stakes: stealing from the Ministry itself. She must learn to trust her magical abilities and her crew-for if the heist goes wrong, everything she loves is forfeit."
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