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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving...
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little. But Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war, Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend
12) Laughing Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The story of a young Navajo man.
14) 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.
17) My Navajo sister
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A white girl lives for a short time on an Indian reservation and forms a close bond with a Navajo girl.
18) The Big Wander
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
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Jóhonaa'éí, the sun, slowly rises, his gentle light and warmth wake the inhabitants of the desert, including a burrow of rabbits, a sleepy coyote, and, perhaps, a family living in a hogan.