Title: Happy birthday, 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
Time periods: To 1848