Valerie Tripp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ruthie Smithens tries to cheer up her best friend, Kit Kiitredge, with stories that have happy endings, but when she finds out that Kit's family is going to lose their home, she knows she must do something more to help.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
70 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mama alive.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
70 p. : col. ill. ; 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
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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.