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Presents selected readings from "Bless Me, Ultima, " a novel about a healer who helps Antonio after coming to live with his family in New Mexico, and includes a discussion of the lifestyles of Chicano farmers and ranchers, a Spanish-English glossary, and questions for the reader.

A republication of a 1938 story in which Lee Weston, wounded in a gunfight with Harvey Dodge, the man he believes responsible for his father's murder, flees to the mountains outside Pecos, New Mexico, where he is found and secretly nursed back to health by Dodge's daughter Ellen, only to earn her scorn when he insists on continuing his plan of revenge.

Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great-aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.

While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.

Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.

A mute Indian child has an extraordinary experience one Christmas when, following a figure who seems to be his beloved grandfather who has died, he becomes part of a circle in which he, animals, nature, and all the world join in a moment of peace and good will.

A memoir of the author's Mexican-American family in El Paso, Texas, told through the voices of several generations of relatives, both living and dead, with photographs and genealogical charts.

Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.

Provides information about New Mexico, the fifth largest state in the U.

While modeling in New Mexico, Barbie makes a new friend named Rosa.

This book is an introduction to New Mexico, describing its location, history, land, wildlife, landmarks, food, and festivals.

Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.

When Tom Broadbent comes across a dying man while riding through a New Mexico canyon, the man asks Tom to deliver a notebook containing mysterious numbers to his daughter, sending Tom on a dangerous journey that puts them in an assassin's path.

Describes New Mexico's location, land, cities, unique places, and history, and presents brief profiles of famous citizens, a time line, and a fact file that covers the state's nickname, motto, song, population, type of government, and official symbols.

Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew.