Pura Belpre honoree and Edgar Award winner Adrianna Cuevas’s CRYPTID KEEPERS, about a Cuban American boy who learns that his mom’s boring job as a wildlife biologist is actually a cover for protecting creatures of legend, and must work with her to uncover a new threat who arrives in their town, to Trisha de Guzman at Farrar, Straus Children’s, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026 by Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel
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