Happy birthday, Josefina! :

Tripp, Valerie, 1951-

Happy birthday, Josefina! : a springtime story / by Valerie Tripp ; illustrations, Jean-Paul Tibbles ; vignettes, Susan McAliley. - Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co., c2000. - 69 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. - The American girls collection .

"American girl." "Book four"--Cover.

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

5.9 Follett Library Resources 3-6 Follett Library Resources

1562475878 (pbk) 9781562475871 0329083104 9780329083106 0329607545 9780329607548


Healers--Fiction.
Ranch life--New Mexico--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Aunts--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Healers--Fiction.
Ranch life--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Aunts--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


New Mexico--History--To 1848--Fiction.
New Mexico--History--Fiction.

PZ7.T7363 / Hao 2000

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