Feliz cumpleaños, Josefina!

Description:

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,  Fiction,  Healers,  History,  Mexican Americans,  Ranch life,  Spanish language materials,  Piano,  To 1848,  New Mexico,  Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical,  Social Issues - General,  Juvenile Fiction,  Spanish: Grades 3-4,  Historical - United States - 19th Century,  Foreign Language Study,  Social Situations - General,  Girls & Women,  Spanish,  Children's fiction,  Ranch life, fiction,  Mexican americans, fiction,  New mexico, fiction,  Bilingual books, spanish-english

Places: New Mexico

Times: To 1848