Now Querying: The Reluctant Crowning of Delfina del Campo

Recipes aren’t supposed to whisper. Squirrels aren’t supposed to be white. Or vanish. And abuelas? They’re not supposed to leave without saying goodbye.

Almost twelve-year-old Fina never asked to inherit an enchanted cookbook—or the family secrets folded into its pages. But under Charleston’s ancient Angel Oak, where roots tangle with memory and dreams blur with truth, magic begins to stir.

Blending Argentine flavor, Southern ghosts, and a shimmer of wonder, The Reluctant Crowning of Delfina del Campo is the book I needed as a tween—Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret meets Bridge to Terabithia, with a trail of powdered sugar and pearls.