Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Aunts
ISBN : 9781439569306
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : 9780613117159
In 1825, when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American, who leaves town without paying her
Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545532345
A modern classic for our time and for all time-this beloved, award-winning bestseller resonates with fresh meaning for each new generation. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Rita Williams-Garcia. Pura Belpre Award Winner * "Readers will be swept up." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.
Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152010911
A counting book, with some words in Spanish, inspired by Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguilar who makes painted clay figures.
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 9780613052818
The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mama alive
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Aunts
ISBN : 9780780790254
When Tía Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781562475178
Josefina and her sisters do not trust the changes Tia Dolores brings to the household.
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9780613289177
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgivi
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9781442054813
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Ti+a7a Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when her Pueblo Indian friend Mariana receives a potentially fatal snakebite. Simultaneous.
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : 9781584850328
Nine-year-old Josefina lives on a ranch in New Mexico in 1824.
