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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
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1988-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an orphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can.
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
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1992-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As her tenth birthday approaches, Felicity is excited by her grandfather's visit, but she is also concerned about the growing tensions between the colonists and the British governor in Williamsburg.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1988-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
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
Pub. Date
1991-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Williamsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All winter Felicity has waited to go to the Williamsburg town fair, but her foolhardy actions in trying to feed the race horses spoils the fun and teaches her a lesson. Contains instructions on how to play quoits.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Thanksgiving pageant.
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