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Tripp, ValerieTripp, 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: 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 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: When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998