Chasing the jaguar / Michele Domínguez Greene.
By: Greene, Michele Domínguez.
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BookPublisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 227 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780060763534 (trade bdg.); 0060763531 (trade bdg.); 9780060763541 (lib. bdg.); 006076354X (lib. bdg.).Subject(s): Mayas -- Fiction | Indians of Central America -- Fiction | Self-realization -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction | Mystery and detective stories | Mayas -- Fiction | Native Americans -- Central America -- Fiction | Self-realization -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction | Mystery fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
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Text mainly in English with some Spanish.
After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
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