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After that day, every time Flor's mom made fruit turnovers, she would send some for Mr. García. Lupita's mom even sent him tamales at Christmas. The moms tried to pay back the 27 dollars, but Mr. García wouldn't take the money. In fact, and he never told anyone this, but when Christmas came, he gave Lupita and Flor each a card with twenty dollars inside. And every Day of the Dead
, while the girls were in elementary school, they'd get together, have some
pan dulce
and hot chocolate, and remember Rafa, the little mummy.

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James Luna

Traducci
n al espa
ol de Gabriela Baeza Ventura

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A Mummy in Her Backpack / by James Luna; Spanish translation by Gabriela Baeza Ventura = Una momia en su mochila / por James Luna; traducción al español de Gabriela Baeza Ventura.

p. cm.

Summary: Flor returns to school from a vacation in Mexico, only to find she brought back a small man with dark yellow skin and thin, stringy hair, who emerges from her backpack and introduces himself as Rafa, a mummy from the famous museum in Guanajuato.

ISBN 978-1-55885-756-8 (alk. paper)

[1. Mummies—Fiction. 2. Mexican Americans—Fiction. 3. Spanish language materials—Bilingual.] I. Ventura, Gabriela Baeza. II. Title. III. Title: Momia en su mochila.

PZ73.L86 2012

[Fic]—dc23

2012026030

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