Maya and the Rising Dark author-Gary Golio scholarly works

scholarly works

Queenie is a bit choosier

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and ultimately a story that is both heartbreaking and hopeful

Bao and his father awoke early

Maya and the Rising Dark author-Gary Golio scholarly worksTwelve 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 explanationperhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papas stories or her favorite comics. When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both