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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, nine-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him, and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mam̈еa died a year ago. When Mam̈еa's sister, T̈еia Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But T̈еia Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mam̈еa never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of T̈еia...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina discovers that she has a gift for healing when she tends an orphaned baby goat, finds the courage and creativity to mend her family's broken trust in an americano trader, and seeks to keep her family whole and happy when ́Tía Dolores plans to leave.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
67 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
11) Kit's home run
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
61 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
15) Just Josefina
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1824 New Mexico, nine-year-old Josefina is happy when her grandparents and aunt come to visit, but she thinks she must choose between meeting her grandmother's expectations and being true to herself. Includes historical notes on women's rights in New Mexico in 1824 as well as a recipe for apple empanaditas.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters are excited when energetic young Aunt Dolores arrives at the rancho, bringing new ideas, new fashions, and new challenges, but they worry the changes will make them forget Mamá, especially as Christmas approaches.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
67 pages : color ills. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
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