Return to Casita where we find seventeen-year-old Bruno from Disney's hit animated film Encanto, where readers will finally learn what happened to make people never want to talk about him.
Fans will love this dark and mysterious young adult novel by Alex Segura, a NYT bestselling author who also wrote Poe Dameron: Free Fall and Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow.
Seventeen-year-old Bruno has never really fit in with his family—why can't he be as outgoing as his sister Pepa, or as friendly as his sister Julieta? Does he like being the awkward loaner who never seems to find where he can fit in? But it's hard to be popular when you have the power to tell the future and people don't always like what you are telling them. So Bruno devises an act, and begins to model the behavior he feels the town wants to see in a hero.
But is being dishonest to himself and others the right path to walk down in order to make friends, or is Bruno just kidding himself as he hides from his own destiny that threatens to destroy all he holds dear?
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- ISBN: 9781368106702
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- ISBN: 9781368106702
- File size: 3719 KB
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October 15, 2024
This prequel to Disney's animated filmEncanto centers on the mysterious outcast Bruno Madrigal. Bruno, who's a triplet, has a lot on his mind. He wants to be supportive of his hermanas: Pepa, who's getting married, and Julieta, who's still deciding among suitors. Then there are his mother's expectations that they should be helpful to the townspeople, making the most of the magical gifts his family's been given. Bruno, who's socially out of step, struggles with anxiety and wonders who he really is. Is he just a broody social pariah who only predicts bad news? Could he alter his fate by dressing differently--changing his style and sharing the hopeful news people want to hear, even if it's not entirely true? And what if, the entire time, someone is waiting on the periphery, threatening Bruno's family and the Encanto? The dialogue often casually includes Spanish phrases that are easily comprehensible in context, fleshing out the Colombian setting. The book includes some characters who do not appear in the movie, and the plot and setting walk a line between following the canon of the movie and presenting an original world (for instance, there's no mention of Bruno's room being a sandy cavern). Unfortunately, the text relies too heavily on overexplanatory narration, which takes away from the fun of learning more about these characters naturally over the course of the story. May satisfy diehard fans of the original movie.(Fiction. 12-17)COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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