Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot

by Randall Pijoan and Emerita Romero-anderson

Book Overview

In the 1790s, in a tiny Spanish Colonial village in the Kingdom of New Mexico, pottery is as crucial to starving villagers as the rains that might save their scorched bean fields. But Native potters are sending their wares south to markets in Chihuahua. When his widowed mother's only bean pot cracks, eleven-year-old Raymundo knows his family's last hope lies with Clay Woman, a Gen zaro outcast and quite possibly a powerful witch. In addition to drought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726819
• ISBN13: 9780896726819
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7