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| Adelita's Secret |
When I started laying the storyline groundwork for Adelita’s Secret I had no idea that the story would move into the realm of
fantasy. Short of Harry Potter, I had
never read fantasy, and had never written fantasy. But that’s where 17-year-old
Adelita took me. Adelita is strong-willed
and curious, and it was her inquisitive nature that brought her to the attic of
her home on that cool autumn day and changed the genre of her story from young
adult to young adult/fantasy.
Adelita was in the attic searching for her mother’s
golf clubs. My original thought was to have Adelita stumble on a stack of old
Mexican newspapers that were stored in an attic footlocker. If she read the
stories detailing the bloody Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 she might feel a
sliver of understanding of her heritage—Adelita is ashamed of her Mexican
roots.
I didn’t know until she opened the footlocker that
she would find the diary of her great grandmother. And I didn’t know what she
would find in that diary until she picked it, dusted it off, and began reading.
I wasn’t sure what would happen next. She read the first page of the diary and
recited aloud the first entry: “El viaje
largo a la libertad empieza hoy.” Adelita doesn’t speak Spanish, and she
had no idea was just said, but in the
next instant her great grandmother appears, and Adelita’s Secret takes a
giant leap into the world of fantasy.
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About
Adelita’s Secret
Lost in a superficial world of materialism and
social status—and ashamed of her Latino heritage—seventeen-year-old Adelita Noé
is loved by two men, two men separated by a hundred years and vastly different
stations in life. One man owns little more than the shirt on his back. The
other, a poet at heart, is heir to a vast fortune. Their love for Adelita
serves as the backdrop for the Latino girl’s quest to better understand herself
and her Mexican roots.
Adelita’s Secret tells the story of a
teenage Latino girl who has lost her moral compass. She is ashamed of her
Mexican heritage. Quite by accident, she finds a diary written by her great
grandmother. The diary provides a portal for Adelita to travel back in time.
She finds herself immersed in the Mexican War of 1910, a war pitting Mexican
farmers against the corrupt land barons. Adelita joins the soldaderas, a
band of warrior women, then meets and falls in love with a Mexican soldier,
Diego Santiago. Her love for Diego serves to bring Adelita closer to her
Mexican roots.
About
Christopher Cloud
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| Author Christopher Cloud |
Award-winning
author Christopher Cloud writes middle-grade and young adult novels. He began
writing fiction full time at the age of 66 after a long career in journalism
and public relations. Chris graduated from the University of Missouri in 1967
with a degree in journalism. He has worked as a reporter, editor, and columnist
at newspapers in Texas, California, and Missouri. He was employed by a major
oil company as a public relations executive, and later operated his own public
relations agency. He created the board game Sixth Sense in 2003. Chris lives in
Joplin, Missouri, and enjoys golf and hiking.
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