They did whatever they wanted, wherever they wanted and whenever they wanted.

Unsupervised, Odilia and her sisters went completely wild that summer of mariposas. When Papá left, they stopped playing the game. One time, he selected La Sirena, The Mermaid card , and said, 'La mujer who wants to take your Papá away! No! We won't let her!' This made Mamá more upset. Odilia remembers when Papá played the game Lotería with them. Mamá told them to stay inside and play Lotería, but it was difficult because they needed un cantor, a caller, to recite all the riddles for the cards. Her mother is forced to get her first job. Billions of mariposas swarmed the area where Odilia and her sisters live.

It was summer in southern Texas in the city of Eagle Pass located near the Rio Grande during the migration of the mariposas. The Pot: 'Listen to me or I will make you marry a toad.' I look forward to seeing what Guadalupe Garcia McCall will write next.El Cazo: 'Hazme caso o te caso con un sapo.' It is a superior work of magical realism. Summer of the Mariposas weaves the mythic and the mundane together seamlessly. In addition to being a quest story, it is also a story about families and complicated relationships. Odilia is the narrator of the story, and Garcia McCall manages to be both lyrical in her descriptions while also capturing the voices of twenty-first century teenagers. The five sisters have distinct personalities-Brave Odilia, headstrong Juanita, the twins Velia and Delia who are both bratty and trade on their beauty, and the naïve 10-year old Pita. The characters, even the magical ones, are real. Summer of the Mariposas is more than just a high concept work of fiction. Their adventures are thrilling, full of magic and sometimes quite funny. Along the way, they have many adventures, including run-ins with wily sorceresses, lechuzas (owl-women), evil warlocks and chupacabras (goat blood suckers). Since the girls have a grandmother who lives in Mexico, they decide to go visit her as well. She gives Odilia a pair of magic earrings that allow her to call on the magical intervention of Tonantzin, the sacred Aztec mother goddess, should they need it. Odilia, the eldest of the girls, has a vision of Llorona, the mythic weeping woman, who tells her that she and her sisters must return the man’s body to his family in Mexico. In a small Texas town, the 5 Garza sisters find a dead body floating in their summer watering hole. Garcia McCall has mixes Aztec and Mexican mythology with the ultimate quest story, The Odyssey and come up with a charming, richly layered YA novel. Syncretic religion mixes two separate religious traditions-say, Christianity with African Orisha worship-and combines them in a new way that honors both traditions.

Juanita summer of the mariposas