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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. Fourteen-year-old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander -- a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A richly ambitious novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern-day Southwest, and the places of the old ones, the native peoples of the Americas, in an earlier time that is both real and supra-real.
Author
Publisher
Greenwich Workshop Press
Language
English
Description
By following clues from a dream and taking photographs of endangered wilderness areas, eleven-year-old Sarah and a Native American environmentalist try to prevent the commercial development of a southwestern canyon. Features an illustration of a camouflaged image on a foldout page.
14) Kokopelli's gift
Author
Publisher
Kiva Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a stranger named Kokopelli arrives at a drought-stricken Puebloan village, he accepts gifts in exchange for teaching the villagers to sing and dance to bring the rain.
15) Runs With Horses
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches in the American Southwest.
16) Dreamplace
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago.
17) Loving Chloe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Horsewoman Chloe arrives at Hank's cabin in Arizona to announce she is pregnant and they resume their romance. The baby is delivered by Junior Whitebear, a handsome Indian and Chloe falls in love with him, concluding she is not destined to be a one-man woman. By the author of Hank and Chloe.
18) El niǫ pastor
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
As a young Navajo boy brings his family's sheep home one evening, he discovers one is missing and sets out to rescue it before nightfall.
19) The old hogan
Author
Publisher
Mesa Verde Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Members of a Navajo Indian family plan to move to a six-room house with electricity and running water, unaware that their excited talk is saddening the one-room hogan they will be leaving behind.