Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother’s unexplained disappearance.  Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them.

American Library Association, 2016 Pura Belpre Author Honor winning novel.

• The Smoking Mirror (Book 1 of the Garza Twins series)
• Author: David Bowles
• ISBN:  978-1-925148-64-0 (trade paperback)
• ISBN: 978-1-925496-02-4 (laminated cloth bound)
• RRP: $12.99 US (trade paperback)
• RRP: $18.99 US (laminated cloth bound)
• Publisher: IFWG Publishing LLC
• Fantasy (contemporary)
• Juvenile/Middlegrade
• 226 pages – paperback   English
• Binding: Perfect bound – trade paperback
• Binding: Cloth Bound – laminated
• Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
• eBook Formats: Kindle, NOOK Book, Kobo Books  (or buy direct from IFWG Publishing)
• Key Words:  fantasy, mexico, mexican-american, aztec, mythology.
• Publication Date: 2015, 2016 (cloth bound – laminated)

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