Happy birthday, Josefina!

Valerie Tripp Jose Moreno Susan McAliley First published 1998

About this book

Josefina who hopes to become a "curandera," or healer, like Tía Magdalena, is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

Subjects

  • aunts
  • bilingual books, spanish-english
  • children's 9-12 - fiction - historical
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • foreign language study
  • girls & women
  • healers
  • historical - united states - 19th century
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • mexican americans
  • mexican americans, fiction
  • new mexico
  • new mexico, fiction
  • piano
  • ranch life
  • ranch life, fiction
  • social issues - general
  • social situations - general
  • spanish
  • spanish: grades 3-4
  • spanish language materials
  • to 1848