Thea and the Mischief Makers by Tracy Badua (hardcover) white ladyThea gets a chance to begin anew at Pacific Academy. There, she's a star athlete, someone with friends and popularity. But disaster strikes at Junior Stunt Warrior summer camp with her new friends: Her extremely uncool former best friend, Evan, shows up too, and she discovers that stunt class is the one activity she's not good at. Actually, it's something she's terrified of. It all reminds Thea of the shy, invisible version of herself she's determined
keeping a heavy secret: She's half-encanto
They are thought to be mischievous creatures
Tiktiks -- who swoop
But she doesn't even have any powers yet
Until a monster hunter turns up and kills a fellow manananggal
From award-winning authors Budgette Tan and David Hontiveros comes The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo --a 19th-century cryptozoologist's account of his encounters with the strange and magical creatures from Philippine legends and mythology
"Tabi-tabi po" is the phrase to be invoked in their presence
Display Nawa in a full coffin (while still keeping her famous split visible)
Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity
usually hidden in the woods or in banana forests
A giant who turns enemies to stone
But with peril looming over Biringan