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Fire Serpent Legacy, The Cindy L. Rodriguez Hardcover JUVENILE FICTION/Fantasy / General The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto meets The Last Beekeeper in The Fire Serpent Legacy, a middle-grade novel that follows Auri Braga as she secretly raises a newly hatched Boitatá—a fire-serpent from Brazilian mythology—to protect her family's homeland from those who threaten to tear the Amazon down. Auri Braga isn’t much of a fighter. With her older sister always ready to stand up for her, she’s never had to be. But when she discovers a fire serpent’s egg hidden amongst her grandmother’s tchotchkes only days before her first trip back to Brazil, she doesn't have time to stand on the sidelines anymore. Auri’s spent her whole life wondering what her parents were like, and now she knows they were heroes: riders of the legendary Boitatás, sworn to protect the Amazon and its people. And if they believed the egg should be in Brazil, then Auri isn’t going to stop until their last wish is fulfilled—even if she has to hide the truth from her sister and avó. But getting the egg safely to the guardians is easier said than done, and when it suddenly hatches, she’ll need to become every bit of the rider her parents were to not only protect the new fire serpent but help him save her family’s homeland from destruction.