Rudolfo Anaya Books
The farolitos of Christmas
With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead.
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Farolitos for Abuelo
When Luz's beloved grandfather dies, she places luminaria around his grave on Christmas Eve as a way of remembering him.
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Roadrunner's dance
Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature w...
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Old man s love story
An old man in New Mexico shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together and her death.
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The sorrows of young Alfonso
""The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Neuvo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita d...
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