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Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Brian Young's (Navajo) debut novel, inspired by Navajo beliefs, features a seemingly ordinary boy who must save the life of a Water Monster-and help his uncle suffering from addiction-by discovering his own bravery and boundless love"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1992 author Douglas Preston and his wife and daughter rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of a Navajo deity, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston's account of their "one tough journey, luminously remembered" (Kirkus Reviews) is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land and is "like traveling...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Weave of Time powerfully documents 50 years and four generations of change in one Navajo family. In 1938, noted anthropologist John Adair travelled to the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand wind motion picture camera. There Adair met and filmed the Burnside family, creating a visual record of Navajo life in the 1930's. In an unprecedented composite, Adair's previously unseen historical footage is juxtaposed with contemporary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Formats
Description
A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
8) Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
11) The Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Navajo.
12) The Navajo
Author
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Navajo people, their customs, family, organizations, food gathering, religion, war, housing, and other aspects of daily life.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation....
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: May 2022 Picture Books
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Read in Full Bloom: Preschool - 1st Grade
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Read in Full Bloom: Preschool - 1st Grade
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Up heartbreak hill chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, New Mexico-Thomas, an elite runner; Tamara, an academic superstar; and Gabby, an aspiring photographer-as they navigate their senior year at a reservation high school. As graduation nears, they must decide whether or not to stay in their community-a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their beings-or leave in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere. Largely isolated...
17) Race to the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Children's Special Topics: Books About Indigenous People in the U.S.
Formats
Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
18) Rock with wings
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Return of Navajo Boy, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational...
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