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Tripp, ValerieTripp, Valerie
Summary: Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But Tía Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mamá never learned to do....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 1998
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC TRI SPINDLETripp, Valerie
Summary: During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1992