Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.

On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.

"Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a 'nagual,' a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them"--Page 4 of cover.

Join Ana and Estela as they sell their handmade goods at a Saturday market in Mexico.

In Race to the River The Journey Continues, Sally Crum s exciting sequel to Race to the Moonrise An Ancient Journey, a young Native American brother and sister continue an event-filled, 13th century journey to return their injured father from today s southern Colorado to their home in Casas Grandes, Mexico. Meanwhile, three unlikely emissaries of peace, two boys and a Chumash noblewoman, embark from the California coast with hopes of averting an attack...