Pedro, our little ghost, has a good reason to stick around the tiny mountain community of El Rito in northern New Mexico. And Rebecca Garcia is determined to find out what it is. Many stories had been handed down about how ghosts could be lost in the world of the living and all the other young girls were afraid. But not Rebecca, because she had been told that little Pedro had always been a nice boy and liked by everyone. It doesn't take her long to unravel the mystery, and in the end she learns something that she-and the entire community-will never forget. Bilingual Edition in Spanish and...

Little Manuel Armijo learns the secret as to why his family farm has always had the most successful crops every year while others in the northern New Mexico village of Velarde have not. His father shares the secret of a Magic Ring with his son and tells him how the ring was brought to New Mexico four hundred years ago from Spain by his ancestors. Does the Magic Ring really have mystical powers. Little Manuel soon finds out. JOSEPH J. RUIZ, a native of northern New Mexico is an avid researcher into the history of New Mexico, "The Land of Enchantment," or "La Tierra Encantada" as it is referred...