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Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Iron Maiden all sang about the seventh son of the seventh son. And about Nina, an only child born on the sixth day of the sixth month? Not so much. Girls aren't heroic figures, the stuff of songs and legends. Even if they posses many talents. A dad that died young. A mom that runs away. A keen eye for conspiracies. See that flock of birds over there? Looks pretty normal, right? But Nina sees right through their mangy feathers and divines their plot to end the world in a nuclear ball of white noise. What to do? Save the world armed only with a box of cereal? Perhaps. Criticas notes that the book encourages children to speak up, even when adults are not noticing what is happening around them or the harm they are causing. Karen Chacek was born in Mexico City, Mexico, on a Saturday in July. She grew up with comic books, soap operas, science fiction, and fantasy books. These days she makes a living by writing all those things and more. She likes long walks in public parks, cloudy skies, insects, cats, underground tunnels, and dystopias.Abraham Balcazar is an illustrator based in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Karen Chacek in an inhabitant of parallel worlds and mind-stories. Born in Mexico City on a Saturday in June, she spent her childhood devouring comics, watching television, and reading books of fables. As a teenager, she discovered science fiction, music videos, and movies. Her fascination with the written image led her to study film. She now works as a screenwriter and author and was a fellow of the Sundance Film Institute in 2001 in Mexico and Barcelona. She has published the collection of short stories Parallel Days (2006) and two children's books, including Conspiracy Girl, originally published in Spanish in 2009, and has several pieces published in anthologies. She loves long walks in public parks, cloudy skies, insects, cats, underground passages and dystopias. Abraham Balcazar has been an illustrator since 2001. He is also the illustrator for the children's book Cuando las Panteras No Eran Negras/When Panthers Were Not Black (2010). He lives in Mexico City and keeps a blog at abrahambalcazar.blogspot.com.

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