Advanced readers often need a more exciting, challenging story. This is a detective story set in present-day Mexico, but in which it seems that the ancient Aztec god Tezcatlipoca is responsible for various deaths. Police officer Rodriguez and journalist Casanova are investigating, but that is definitely not without danger. Then they find a mirror that leads them to an ancient Aztec god. Surely this god cannot possibly be responsible for the enigmatic events? The threat becomes more pressing. Can they prevent their own death?

Specifications

• 130 unique words; total word count: 8000
• 76 pages of text
• written in past tense
• Neutral Spanish with several Latin-American characteristics: more use of personal pronouns than in Spain, and the use of 'ustedes' instead of 'vosotros'.
• setting: Morelos, Mexico

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Information for teachers

Tezcatlipoca is an adventurous and thrilling book. It has both contemporary and mythical elements. Each chapter has a fixed structure and there are many helpful illustrations. Completely new words or constructions are translated directly at the bottom of the page. All this makes the text easier to understand. The level of this book is B1. It is a suitable book for individual reading, but it can also be read in class. And it could be used to accompany a project about Mexico or the Aztecs.