KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; J = 5th Grade and Up
1820's
Picture Books
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Tripp, Valerie | AGAIN, JOSEFINA! American Girls Short Stories 9-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. |
2000 | 28 p. |
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Tripp, Valerie | CHANGES FOR JOSEFINA 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. 1824 New Mexico. |
1998 | 57 p. |
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Tripp, Valerie | JOSEFINA'S SONG American Girls Short Stories In the early 1800's, 10-year-old Josephina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderlyshepherd who works for him and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident. |
2001 | 31 p. |
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Tripp, Valerie | JOSEFINA’S SURPRISE 1824 New Mexico.The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las sadas helps keep memories of Mama alive. |
1997 | 60 p. |
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Tripp, Valerie | A REWARD FOR JOSEFINA American Girls Short Stories When the entire family goes into the hills to collect pinon nuts, Josephina hopes to find the most in order to make Tia Dolores proud of her. |
1999 | 29 p. |
5th Grade and Up
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Dexter, Catherine | SAFE RETURN Inspired by a true incident in 1824 on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Ursula, an orphan, lives with her Aunt Dana and Uncle Josef. Her aunt must sail to Stockholm during the stormiest season. She worries that once again she will lose the person she loves. |
1996 | 94 p. |
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Ernst, Kathleen | SECRETS IN THE HILLS Josefina has heard tales and legends all her life like rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills. She never imagined that such tales might be true though until a stranger shows up at her rancho. |
2006 | 183 p. |
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Hopkinson, Deborah | MARIA'S COMET As a young girl, budding astronomer Maria Mitchell dreams of searching the night sky and someday finding a new comet. (1818-1889). Based on the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. 1820's. |
1999 | unpaged |
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Ketchum, Liza | ORPHAN JOURNEY HOME In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, 12-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the mild sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves. |
2000 | 153 p. |
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Lawlor, Laurie | Down the Rio Grande American Sisters 1829. Even the remote Rio Bravo town of Guerrero has paid for Mexico's war of independence from Spain. Gripped by drought and depression, Guerrero is changing. 16-year-old Rosita Trevino dreams of a better life, as does 15-year-old Maria Alvarz, the book-loving stepsister she barely knows. When Father brings home a rich old suitor who chooses Rosita as his bride she is determinded to flee before it's too late! |
2000 | 176 p. |
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Lyons, Mary | THE POISON PLACE 1741-1827. A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son’s suspicious death. |
1997 | 160 p. |