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Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, when nine-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1824 New Mexico, Josefina and her sisters argue as they weave, until Josefina thinks of a way to make their work more fun. Includes historical notes on blanket weaving in New Mexico in 1824 and instructions for dyeing a t-shirt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Josefina Montoya and her sisters love the comfortable traditions of life on her family's New Mexican rancho, but they are suspicious of the changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
1998-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Tia 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
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
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