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61) Race to the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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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...
62) The Navajo
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
65) Red Mesa
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
When Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is accused of murdering her cousin and fellow officer, the police believe she has turned evil. Her brother and mother must protect Ella's daughter, and the FBI agents and Navajo police she helped train are on her trail, using her own techniques to find her.
67) A time of change
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
"... introduces readers to Josephine Buck and other employees at a New Mexico trading post. When The Outpost's owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart, whom she thought of as a surrogate father, has left her the business. Ben Stuart and his dad had had problems, but military service changed Ben for the better and put the two men back in each other's lives. His father's sudden death ends any possibility of...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
Description
Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police is called in to investigate when the son-in-law of a powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician is attacked, and when Ella uncovers evidence of Navajo witchcraft, she fears she is exposing herself to skinwalker magic by searching for the culprit.
69) The Bible seller
Author
Series
Navajo Nation mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"An old silversmith is dead--his body dumped unceremoniously along the highway to be found by a tourist's yapping dog. Legal Services Investigator Charlie Yazzie isn't content to stand by while the FBI and Tribal look for clues; not when he sees his friends Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy sucked into a tightening web of evil. One thing is clear in this chilling new addition to Chappell's Navajo Nation Mystery Series--a spate of murders and an outlier...
72) Navajo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Navajo Indians.
73) Blackening song
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Blackening Song is the debut of Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah, who returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella's brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect. Without cooperation from the tribe, the FBI, or the local police, Ella must plumb the depths of the struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces among the Navajo to find her father's murderer.
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Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021].
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....
76) Plant them deep
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
Description
For the Navajo, to "walk in beauty"-to stay in balance with the natural world around one-is the greatest gift, and the greatest task, of one's life. For Rose Destea, to walk in beauty has meant threading a difficult path between traditionalist and modernist ways. Though she worships at the family shrine, her husband was a Christian preacher. Though her son, Clifford Destea, is a respected hataalii or medicine man, her daughter, Ella Clah, is a Special...
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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...
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Description
History, old-style wool blankets, changes brought about by traders, symbolism of design and color, a Navajo weaver at work, more. Emphasis on Navajo. Includes information on the Bayeta blanket, squaw dresses, dyeing, belts, garters, hair braids, imitation blankets, the Chimayó blanket, and reliable dealers. 254 illustrations, 32 in color.
80) Bad medicine
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
En route to a homicide scene--Navajo rights activist Stanley Bitah has been clubbed to death--tribal police officer Ella Clah stops to check out a report of a drunk driver, only to find that Angelina Yellowhair isn't drunk but that she'd been fatally poisoned even before her car crashes.