Most Popular Books by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Translated by Enrique R. Trevi-o Borton.

A young boy is given the task of caretaker for an albino deer in the mountains of Mexico.

What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties'' provincial Monterrey? She finds herself-sometimes hilariously-coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. In this vivid autobiography, Newbery Award winning author Elizabeth Borton de Treviño brings to life her experiences with the culture and the faith of a civilization so close to the United States, but rarely appreciated or understood. This special young people''s edition presents the humor and the insights of a remarkable woman and her contact with an era which is now past, but not to be forgotten.

His father''s loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 forces a boy known as El Güero and his family into exile to the dangerous Baja California territory.