Legends in the Heights
By Marguerite Dabaie
Raia, a 12-year-old girl from Jackson Heights, unintentionally becomes the best friend of a legendary creature when she comes home from school one day. Bazzu, a buraq (a horse-bird-lion), has been so impressed by Raia’s amazing skateboard moves, they want Raia to be their skateboarding teacher! But where will this unlikely friendship lead? And how do you hide a legendary creature in Queens? And how did Bazzu get there to begin with?