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.