All for One

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Judy Moody meets the One Day at a Time remake in this third story in a chapter book series featuring a young Cuban American girl who tries to find adventure based on the classics she read with her beloved abuelacan Dominguita save a quinceaera

Dom, Pancho, Steph, and their noble steed, Rocco, are ready for their next adventure! When their beloved El Seor Fuentes asks Dom to run a very important errandto put the order in at the local butcher shop for his daughter, Lenis, upcoming quinceaeraDom is happy to help. But when Seor Fuentes discovers the order was never put inand the food for the party has been sold to someone elseDom takes a cue from The Three Musketeers to try and figure out what happened.

With the help of Pancho and Steph, Dom discovers the dastardly Bublassi brothers have big plans to sabotage Lenis party. Keeping in mind the famous motto All for One and One for All, Mundytowns own Three Musketeers are determined to make sure Leni has a party shell remember for all the right reasons!

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On September 11, 1961, Terry Catass Jennings landed in the United States after a short flight from Cuba. On September 12th, she was enrolled in seventh grade in an American school. Her family, including her father who had been jailed during the Bay of Pigs invasion, was now in a free country. The only catch for twelve-year-old Terry was that she could count in English and recite the days of the week and the months of the year, but not much more. Often being the only Cuban in her schooleven through collegeTerry knows what its like to be the new kid on the block. She is delighted to have the opportunity, with Definitely Dominguita, to portray a child of immigrants who is normalno different than her peersother than she loves the classics (like Jennings did as a child) and thinks Cuban food rules.

Mari Lobo was born and raised in So Paulo, Brazil. Being the youngest of three siblings and theonly artist ina huge extended family lead her to be a very social person. She was alwaysfond of drawing and painting, but her childhood was spent playing in thestreet andclimbing trees more so than staying at home and drawing. By age fifteen she decided to be anartist, and after a quick detourgetting a degree in industrial design and working acouple years in the fashion industryshe moved to California and attended the Academyof Art in San Francisco where she got her masters in visual development for animation. She now lives in the sunny Bay Area (with her awesome classical musician husband) whereshe goes to concerts, on hikes, and out to dinner with friends, but mostly sits in front of hercomputer and draws all day every day. Mari likes to draw for kids because she lovedbeing a child herself.