~ Colorado Book Award Winner

~ Reading the West Longlist Pick

~ Moonbeam Children's Book Silver Award

 

DEL TORO MOON

(DEL TORO MOON #1)

 

Ride hard, swing hard, and take out as many of those creepy critters as you can.

 

Twelve year old Matt Del Toro is the greenest greenhorn in his family’s centuries-old business: riding down and destroying wolf-like monsters, known as skinners. Now, with those creatures multiplying, both in number and ferocity, Matt must saddle up and match his father’s skills at monster whacking. Odds of doing that? Yeah, about a trillion to one. Because Matt’s father is the legendary Javier Del Toro—hunter, scholar, and a true caballero: a gentleman of the horse.

 

Luckily, Matt has twelve hundred pounds of backup in his best friend—El Cid, an Andalusian war stallion with the ability of human speech, more fighting savvy than a medieval knight, and a heart as big and steadfast as the Rocky Mountains.

 

Serious horse power.  Those skinners don’t stand a chance.

 

 

"This fresh and fun exploration of tough familial relationships, modern knights, and talking horses is sure to appeal to fans of The Ranger’s Apprentice and equine enthusiasts."

--Todd Mitchell, The Last Panther

 

 "... a wildly original, pulse-pounding tale..."

Laura Resau,  Tree of Dreams

 

"Builds to a genuinely rousing climax - straight into my Top Ten."

--Nick Garlick, Storm Horse

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