Napà is a young Mazateca girl who lives with her family in a little village on the bank of a river in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. Each afternoon the family sits beneath the shade of a huge ceiba tree and listens to the grandfather’s stories. As...
When their father disappears one day, Napà and her little brother Niclé decide to leave their village to find him. They set off upriver on a raft. As they go, their search assumes a magical quality and becomes a journey of self-discovery. Turtles c...
In this third book about NapÃ, the government is building a dam, forcing the Mazateca people to make a new village for themselves on inhospitable land. Napà recounts what she remembers of this time  -- traveling upriver to the place where they wi...