Books with title Josefina an American Girl

Josefina tries to help run the household, learns to read and write, participates in Las Posadas at Christmastime, helps a friend who was bitten by a snake, makes an important deal with an American trader, and tries to change her aunt's mind about leaving the ranch.Josefina tries to help run the household, learns to read and write, celebrates Christmas, helps a friend with snakebite, makes a deal with an American, and tries to change her aunt's mind about leaving the ranch

Josefina tries to help run the household, learns to read and write, participates in Las Posadas at Christmastime, helps a friend who was bitten by a snake, makes an important deal with an American trader, and tries to change her aunt's mind about leaving the ranch.Josefina tries to help run the household, learns to read and write, celebrates Christmas, helps a friend with snakebite, makes a deal with an American, and tries to change her aunt's mind about leaving the ranch

Mary Tanaka is an average American girl until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Then overnight she becomes something terrible: She becomes Japanese.Suddenly, everyone hates her: Bricks thrown through her father's store windows, signs saying No Japs. Even her boyfriend turns against her.And when the American government decides that every Japanese within a hundred miles of the west coast of America should be taken miles inland, Mary's life explodes. Her father is arrested and her mother falls apart.Mary has to find a way to survive in the camps, balancing her needs against the rigid Japanese traditions of caring for her family. She has to learn to live and love again in a constantly changing world. A world where she is the enemy...