Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names
What if the stories your family tells you aren't stories at all?
Twelve-year-old Emily knows when adults are lying—and keeps a list to prove it. But when she spends the summer with her grandmother in the Philippines, the creatures from Lola's stories begin appearing outside her window. Someone has been keeping a secret. And one of the creatures already knows Emily's name.
When the stories become real
Emily never expected to meet a Kapre, Tikbalang, Manananggal, or Tiktik in her grandmother's village. Until the warnings begin, the fog closes in, and a fistful of salt becomes her first line of defense.
But the creatures are only part of the danger. The adults around Emily have been protecting secrets of their own—some of them for fifty years.
A Filipino folklore adventure about monsters, family secrets, and the names we inherit—and choose for ourselves.
