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"The Lightning Queen crackles with heartfelt magic. Laura Resau's masterful storytelling will transport readers in this vivid and spellbinding tale about the power of friendship."

-Ingrid Law, Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author of Savvy

FROM

The Lightning Queen 000

Esma, Queen of Lightning, rolled into my life like the first wild storm at the end of dry season. Her caravan wound up the mountain in four horse-drawn wagons, kicking up clouds of dust all the way through the valley. I watched it with the other children, all of us parched as the earth, thirsty for... something.

"Who is it?"


"Are they coming here?" "All the way out here?" "But why?"