All 11-year-old Alma wants to do, besides save the world and adopt all abandoned animals,  is find the 20 lost cards with images of strange creatures who spoke to her beloved grandfather when he was a boy in the Mexican jungle—but recovering them is more than she bargained for when the supernatural creatures begin sweeping her into their harrowing pasts. Turns out the whimsical, mystical, and sometimes scary ‘beings’ have been coming to life since ancient times to guide and protect humanity, but there is a 21st Creature waiting to be liberated.  Alma and her newly recruited and diverse young friends, Mike, Shakir, LaToya, and CK Wang,  must overcome their terror and risk everything to save the cards before a maniac billionaire steals and destroys them. 

Will Alma and her friends survive their dangerous journeys to the ancient and Medieval and Victorian past, will they learn how the cards were lost in the jungle, will they find out who buried them in concrete?  And will they save the 21st  Creature in time?  All these answers and more await you in Codex of Zana!!