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Meet Josefina: An American Girl
Children's fiction
Meet Josefina: An American Girl
Book 1 of the American Girls: Josefina series
85 pages · First published 1997
Nine-year-old Josefina Montoya lives with her father and sisters on a rancho near Santa Fe in 1824, when New Mexico is part of the young Mexican republic. The family is still grieving the death of Josefina’s mother when her lively Tía Dolores arrives from Mexico City and introduces new ideas that both attract and unsettle them. Josefina wants to welcome change without feeling that doing so betrays her mother’s memory. Valerie Tripp opens Josefina’s American Girl story with family, grief, faith, and daily life in Mexican New Mexico, grounding the historical setting in a child’s struggle to make room for both remembrance and hope.
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