San Antonio College Library

Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.

How could Cortes with only 600 soldiers, conquer the mighty Aztec empire? The story is told from the Aztec point of view through the words of Nanautzin, chief speaker for the Aztec Lord, Montezuma.

A woman recalls childhood visits to her grandparents' ranch in Mexico, where she and her brother played with her cousins and listened to the stories of an old Indian ranch hand.

Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains. All the men, that is, except for Miguel. All year long, twelve-year-old Miguel tries to prove that he, too, is up to the challenge - that he, too, is ready to take the sheep into his beloved Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When his deeds go unnoticed, he prays to San Ysidro, the saint for farmers everywhere. And his prayer is answered - but with devastating...

Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.

Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.