Happy birthday, Josefina! : a springtime story /
by Valerie Tripp ; illustrations, Jean-Paul Tibbles ; vignettes, Susan McAliley.
- Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co., c1998.
- 69 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
- The American girls collection .
"Book four"--P. of cover.
Accelerated Reader. ALA Booklist. Horn Book.
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.