Jorden Casillas and the Age of Monsters: The Serpent's Rise

Twelve-year old Jorden Casillas is caught between two worlds-and not for the usual preteen reasons. Jorden is a nahual (nah-wahl), a serpentine shapeshifter from Mesoamerican mythos. With uncanny strength and speed he hasn't quite learned to control, he can't blend in with the humans, nor is he entirely welcome in the secret monster society of Los Angeles. Things take a turn for the worse when Jorden is strong-armed into becoming the apprentice of Gaspar, an unscrupulous smuggler known as T...