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(0)Amy Córdova
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spunky young girl explains the many uses of her mother's red rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl.
Sumario en español: Una valiente niña explica los múltiples usos de el rebozo rojo de su madre, un chal tejido tradicional mexicano.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A brief fictional recounting of legendary epidemics that struck the American Southwest--the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the influenza epidemic during World War I--which ravaged many rural communities throughout the West. Includes author's notes about the characters.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A collection of ten original and traditional stories set in New Mexico, including "Lupe and la Llorona," "The Shepherd Who Knew the Language of Animals," and "Coyote and Raven."
6) Namaste!
Author
Publisher
SteinerBooks
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Whenever Nima meets someone on her long walk to the market village in Nepal, she brings her hands together with her fingers almost touching her chin, bows her head slightly, and says "Namaste," which means "the light in me meets the light in you." Includes information on the geography, culture, and people of Nepal.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: In this bilingual story of faith, Don Jacobo has a dream that, in the end, is a reminder that miracles do happen. Jacobo is teaching his visiting grandson Andres how to become a santero. Christmas is coming, snow is falling in the village, and the two are working on a carving of San Isidro, the patron saint of farmers. The half-finished carving stands in the living room beside the two oxen and the angel that don Jacobo carved earlier...