Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera
Hi my name is Kire. I am in 6th grade and I love to read. Other than reading I like to do gymnastics and play viola.
Alebrijes is an odd and interesting book that is set in the future. For 400 years, the world has been a wasteland in which there is only one settlement of people living on Earth as far as we know. This settlement is called Pocatel. The story follows a thirteen-year-old boy named Leandro who lives in this town as a poor Cascabel. The Cascabels are the descendants of those who worked in the San Joaquin Valley. The Cascabels are frowned upon by the rich Pocatellon people. Leandro and his sister live a horrible life in Pocatel and want to leave to find a better place to live. They want to find a way to leave Pocatel.
Little did Leandro know that his sister would steal a strawberry from a fruit stand. In Pocatel when someone steals, they are exiled by walking across a bridge where there are wandering spirits and wyrms which eat anyone who walks across the bridge. Leandro took the blame for stealing the strawberry and ended up getting a different punishment than exile. His soul was put into an animal drone from before the world collapsed. Leandro ends up meeting other souls who were put into drones and together they all find a way to escape Pocatel with the rest of the Cascabels. The story ends in the Cascabels moving and finding a better place to live in peace.
Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who is into dystopian books or people who just want to read an awesome book. As you can see, I really enjoyed reading Alebrijes.
