Rudolfo A Anaya

"After years of working with at-risk youth, Chicana social worker Rosa Medina leaves Los Angeles?s gang-ridden barrios and street violence to settle in the New Mexican village of Puerto de Luna. Her goal: to write a novel about Bilito?Billy the Kid. It all sounds straightforward enough, but things get more complicated?and a lot more exciting?when Rosa is transported back in time to 1879, where she participates in the infamous Lincoln County War, riding...

With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs.