Chapter 1 Adiós, Kansas
Whether she liked it or not, Paloma Marquez was in Mexico City for a whole month. She lifted her purple sleep mask and raised the plane’s small window shade, letting a stream of sunlight pour in and light up the two books balanced on her lap. One was the newest book in her favorite mystery series featuring the superb teen sleuth Lulu Pennywhistle. Paloma finished it during the two-hour flight from Kansas City to Houston, where she and her mom made their connection flight to Mexico. Now Paloma had only the other book to entertain her during the rest of her time in Mexico. The small Spanish vocabulary book she had bought for the trip featured a yellow cartoon cat wearing a black Zorro mask and hat on the cover. Somewhere up in the sky between
1
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs