La linterna de calabaza perfecta

Cuando su madre es devuelta a México por no tener los papeles adecuados de inmigración, Jose y su padre viajan desde San Diego, California a visitarla en Tijuana.

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

" Isis quiere arrebatarle a toda costa el poder a Ra; Osiris y Horus se enfrentan a Set, el cruel dios rojo; Kunapup, el campesino, e Ipuver, el sabio, desafían al faraón... Dioses todopoderosos y magos, faraones designados por el cielo, sacerdotes, escribas y valientes campesinos son los protagonistas de estas historias que transcurren en el país del Nilo, el río divino. "

At the end of an especially bad day, Javier meets an old man who gives him a mirror to see the future. The mirror gets broken but Javier keeps a piece where he can see the future twenty four hours before. Rights sold to Korea, China and Mexico.