healers

Lomasi, a Creek girl, enjoys singing and hearing stories from the village storyteller, and also likes to help her grandmother gather leaves, roots, and herbs for medicine, but one day her grandmother has an accident and Lomasi must decide what to do.

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.

Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.

In the Middle Ages, orphaned Ceridwen learns the art of herbal healing and gains the protection of the local lord until she is accused of witchcraft.

In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.

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.

A young village girl sets out to find her missing mother and grandfather, who is her village's true healer, before Zarku, the new healer destroys everyone in the village.

Although grudgingly aware that ten-year-old Pinkie has extraordinary powers to heal, sixteen-year-old Barry becomes increasingly convinced that she is an unwilling participant at the healing sessions run by her enterprising stepfather.

Nathan Hurst hates the Christmas season and all its trappings, which only remind him of the event that destroyedhis childhood, but, when a snowstorm strands him with a young mother and her special son, he witnesses the true miracles that occur during the holidays.

Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like T?a Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.