{"id":8563,"date":"2020-09-22T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2020-09-22T19:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:58:05","slug":"blog-blitz-maya-and-the-rising-dark-by-rena-barron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-blitz-maya-and-the-rising-dark-by-rena-barron\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Blitz: Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the MAYA AND THE RISING DARK blog blitz! I’m so excited because today I get to shine a spotlight on this wonderful book for you! This book is truly amazing and I’m so so excited to for you to find out more about MAYA AND THE RISING DARK and Rena Barron!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/p>\n\"BlogMaya and the Rising Dark<\/strong> by Rena Barron<\/a>
Series:<\/strong> Maya and the Rising Dark #1<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> September 22, 2020 by HMH Books for Young Readers<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Middle Grade<\/a>, Fantasy<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 304
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Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation\u2014perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa\u2019s stories or her favorite comics.
\nWhen Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. Her father is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark\u2014where an army led by the Lord of Shadows, the man from Maya\u2019s nightmares, awaits. Maya herself is a godling, half orisha and half human, and her neighborhood is a safe haven. But now that the veil is failing, the Lord of Shadows is determined to destroy the human world and it\u2019s up to Maya to stop him. She just hopes she can do it in time to attend Comic-Con before summer\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t