Rudolfo A. Anaya
2) Alburquerque
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
Description
Focusses on an ex-Golden Glove champion who meets up with a writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while searching for his father.
3) Zia summer
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In Albuquerque, Chicano PI Sonny Baca, who normally pursues absentee fathers, goes after the killers of a former girlfriend whose blood was drained while she was still alive, a probe that takes him through the many cultures of the Southwest. By the author of Bless Me, Ultima.
4) Tortuga
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores the meaning of pain and suffering in a hospital for crippled children.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs. Presented in English and Spanish.
8) Jemez Spring
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 4
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratories and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is Sonny's old nemesis, Raven, mixed...
10) Shaman winter
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mystery fantasy on PI Sonny Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he tries to outwit the evil spirit, Raven. The spirit has abducted some girls and the parents have asked Baca to get them back. The struggle plays out in Baca's dreams
12) Rio Grande fall
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature with the necessary tools to overcome Rattlesnake.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
Author
Series
Owl in a straw hat volume 3
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy s final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo...
20) Maya's children
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In ancient Mexico, the beautiful and magical grandchildren of the Sun God are endangered by the threat of Señor Tiempo who, jealous of their immortality, plots to destroy them.