What if a giant clay pot in your aunt's backyard was actually a portal to 1862? In this episode, we sit down with award-winning author and historian Emma Otheguy to dive into her thrilling new middle-grade historical fantasy, Cousins in the Time of Magic. Join us as Emma shares the inspiration behind her time-traveling trio: Jorge, Camila, and Siggy. And she explains why she wanted to take young readers beyond the textbooks to explore the real stakes of the American Civil War and Mexico's Battle of Puebla.

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