southwest, new

Guided Reading series for grade 4.

Biography of a Medal of Freedom winner who has spent her life improving the health and welfare of her fellow Navajos.

Civilizations clash when Seese, a survivor of the fast-money, high-risk world of drug dealing, travels to the Southwest in search of her missing child and meets Lecha, a celebrity psychic who is working to transcribe the notebooks that contain the history of her Native American people.

Ten stories of desert explorations in which men and women, driven by dreams of discovery, searched for water, converts to Christianity, a homeland, and mineral treasure.

On the forced march of his people from their Arizona homeland to New Mexico, a Navajo boy is sustained by the bond existing between him and the white colt he rescued from a cougar.

A Navajo girl takes her responsibility as big sister very seriously, especially after her mother dies, leaving no one else to care for the baby.

A history of the Indians who have lived in the American Southwest from the Ice Age to the present day, told from their point of view.