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    Josefina: An American Girl
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    Josefina: An American Girl
    Audiobook6 hours

    Josefina: An American Girl

    Written by Valerie Tripp

    Narrated by Barbara Fox

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    About this audiobook

    Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since MamA died a year ago. When MamA's sister, TIa Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But TIa Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something MamA never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of TIa Dolores's changes will make them forget MamA. Meantime, traders from Missouri are arriving on the Santa Fe Trail, bringing new ideas of their own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 25, 2008
    ISBN9781436141062
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    Josefina: An American Girl
    Author

    Valerie Tripp

    Valerie Tripp (Yale ’73; Harvard GSE ’82) is the award-winning author of American Girl books about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen as well as the Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School series. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic Kids. She is has adapted classics for Starry Forest Publishers, and has written numerous leveled readers, songs, stories, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers.

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    • 5/5
      I loved this American girl series. Josefina and her sisters are picture perfect characters for this certain storyline.
    • 5/5
      Hi read this book. It’s a good one.
    • 4/5
      I was really taken by surprise with the Josefina books. I have an aversion to American Girls, and I lean heavily towards own voice. These are excellent though. This is well-researched, enjoyable historical fiction.
    • 3/5
      Josefina, 9 years old, is the youngest of 4 sisters living on a rancho in New Mexico in the 1820s. Their mother died a year before and so many of their traditions remind them of her. Their grandfather who drives a caravan from Mexico City to Santa Fe with items to trade arrives with a surprise, Tia Dolores, their mother's sister.Josefina, who isn't very brave, finds that she can be brave when she needs to be.
    • 5/5
      Josefina is a girl trying to find bravery and deal with living without her mother. When her aunt comes to visit and the goat she most fears eats all her mother’s flowers, she finds the bravery first to put the goat in its pen and then ask Papa’ for her aunt to stay.