Chasing the jaguar
Subtitle: a Martika Gálvez mystery
By: Michele Dominguez Greene.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780060763534; 9780060763541
Subjects: Mayas -- Fiction.; Indians of Central America -- Fiction.; Self-realization -- Fiction.; Kidnapping -- Fiction.; Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Fiction.; Mystery and detective stories.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.