Language: English
Published by Steck-Vaughn Company, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0811480747 ISBN 13: 9780811480741
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Debbe Heller(INEW &llustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. EX School Library. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover (Cover art, Mary Beth Schwark)/VG; sound w/light surface rubs & price sticker to rear. Set in America's Spanish colonial times. Biography of Dominican nun Maria de Concepcion María de la Concepción Marcela Argüello y Moraga, or simply as Concepción Argüello, or "Conchita"(1791 - 1857); an Alta Californian who fell in love w/visiting Russian leader Nikolai Rezanov who promoted colonization of Alaska & California, but died in Siberia, falling off a horse and could not return to her. She will become California's first native-born nun54 pgs in 2 parts: Part I, 1806; and II, 1842, followed by Epilogue.