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Series
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. Annotation. A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.
5) Death walker
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
10) Windsinger
Author
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
11) Loving Chloe
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Hank & Chloe, local Navajo legend Junior Whitebear returns from fame in the eastern art world "to find a son he fathered unwittingly nine years ago" and a new love with thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan who's pregnant with Hank Oliver's child.--Jacket.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 23
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems and prose in which Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso remembers the people and places she encountered during her childhood in Shiprock, New Mexico.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 34
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems and stories by a Navajo poet. In Ahidziskeii, she writes: "It's not a grand thing after all, / just that warm comfort in murmuring 'good night, ' / before I sink into that dark quiet / that exists only when we're together."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
19) Follow the crow
Author
Series
Vanished volume 1
Publisher
Griffith Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can't escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak of what he knows, and so was banished from the Navajo tribe. That was the day the crows started following Ben. Caroline Adams is a nurse with a special talent: she sees things others can't see. She knows that Ben is more than he seems, and that the crows are trying to tell...
20) Talking God
Author
Series
Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn Mystery volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The 2 Navaho police officers, Jim Chee & Joe Leaphorn, featured together in the author's earlier A Thief of Time & Skinwalkers, once more solve a puzzling, complex murder mystery set in New Mexico. Washington politics and protests lead Chee and Leaphorn to cases of grave robbing and to a body that was found stripped of all identification. Lt. Joe Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim. Officer Jim Chee arrests a Smithsonian conservator for...
