Avala, the daughter of Gabriel Eshban Vala, dreams of becoming a healer like her mother, but she is instead destined to bring about the Time of the Eagle, in which tribes hunted by the Navoran director will unite and win their freedom.
Marina and Fern, eager to learn magic just for fun, convince Xochitl to ask her grandmother, a curandera, to teach them, and as her apprentices the three learn about casting spells, healing, and life.
Hope, considered to be the "slow one" of three children in a family of traveling actors in sixteenth-century Europe, discovers that she has a gift for healing the sick--a gift that is not for sale, despite her sister's plans.
Profiles twelve Native American healers, born between 1809 and 1958, who devoted their lives to practicing the art of traditional and non-traditional medicine, and includes an overview of early American Indian medicine and a bibliography.
A child describes the work of his grandfather, a traditional healer in a Nigerian village, comparing it to the work of other family members. Includes information about plants used in healing.
When the Healer's Keep is attacked by dark forces, Princess Sara and the foreigner Dorjan join forces with the slave girl Maeve and freeman Jasper to defend it.
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
A rival ship of Vampirates creates unwanted competition on the seas and Captain Li goes on the hunt with Connor Tempest; and meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace spends some valuable time with their mother and learns their family's shocking history.