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1) Arizona
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"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Arizona"--
6) Bearstone
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A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.
7) Grand Canyon
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"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain."--
8) This big sky
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Poems that describe the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest.
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Growing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival. From being held captive by a Native American tribe (like Olive Ann Oatman), to mastering the dangerous business of wrangling cattle (like Edith Jane Bass), Amazing Girls of Arizona captures the remarkable lives of eleven real American girls (all seventeen years old or younger) who were pioneers of their time. Meet Laurette Lovell,...
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What do you fear? Dying. Are you likely to die in this situation? Yes. Nora's birthday marks the one-year anniversary of the worst day of her life. To distract them both from the memories of the horrible shooting that killed Nora's mom, her dad surprises her with a trip to explore a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert. Nora hopes they'll find some remnant of the happiness they felt when her mother was still alive. But in the twisting, winding depths,...
16) Beyond the mesas
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Tells of the forced removal of Hopi children to off-reservation boarding schools such as Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the Phoenix and Stewart Indian Schools. Topics covered include Hopi understanding of education, early government efforts to assimilate and acculturate Hopis, the Orabi split, Hopi language loss at American schools and the future of the Hopis. A number of historical photograhs of Hopi villages, Indian boarding schools,...
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