Enrique R Lamadrid

A brief fictional recounting of legendary epidemics that struck the American Southwest--the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the influenza epidemic during World War I--which ravaged many rural communities throughout the West. Includes author's notes about the characters.

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.

In the early 1600s, imagines an encounter between a Pueblo woman and Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda, New Mexico's famous Lady in Blue, during the nun's mystical spiritual journeys.

Ollie the owl learns that to become wise and successful he must stop skipping school to play with Raven and Crow and take reading lessons from his abuelita.