Blood in the water

By Pamela Dell

Subjects: Friendship, fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Texas, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Spanish Americans, Mexican war, 1846-1848, fiction, Mexicans, Friendship

Description: As war breaks out between Mexico and the United States over the territory of Texas in 1846, twelve-year-old Bonita, a patriotic Mexican, is at odds with her best friend Carmen, a Spanish American.