Running with Changing Woman
(2023)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
KIDS NEW Y/FICTION/MARTINEZ,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' New & Popular Books KIDS NEW Y/FICTION/MARTINEZ,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Flagstaff, Arizona : Salina Bookshelf, Inc., [2023]
©2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

326 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781960830005, 1960830007, 9781960830005
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Cover design by Brittany Gene; Navajo translations by Geneva Ann Johnson

Chapter One: The Bus Ride Home; Chapter Two: Mission Impossible; Chapter Three: Kim's Story; Chapter Four: Mom's Story; Chapter 5: New Rituals; Chapter Six: Ms. Janice's Story; Chapter Seven: Encore of Embarrassment; Chapter Eight: Feast De La Feast; Chapter Nine: Mrs. Lobo's Story; Chapter Ten: Crash Course; Chapter Eleven: So It Begins; Chapter Twelve: Over the Hill and Through the Desert; Chapter Thirteen: Settling In; Chapter Fourteen: Rebecca's Story; Chapter Fifteen: Teacher Sam; Chapter Sixteen: The Testing of Sam and Rebecca; Chapter Seventeen: Sam's Test Continues; Chapter Eighteen: The Grind; Chapter Nineteen: The Final Count Down; Chapter Twenty: Two Arrivals; Chapter Twenty-One: The Sing; Chapter Twenty-Two: Who Wants Cake?; Glossary

"Samantha is a Navajo girl attending Atsá Mesa Community School on the Navajo Reservation. Her life has seemed pretty average when one day at school her body suddenly changes. As a ́Diné, Samantha must now prepare for the Diné womanhood ceremony called the Kinaaldá, a ceremony once performed by the Navajo deity, Changing Woman. With her life now filled with more drama than ever before, she's reluctant to participate in the demanding four-day ceremony. With a whirlwind of new adventures and pep talks from those closest to her, Sam's family and her two best friends do their best to help Sam deal with bullies, boys, and her new responsibilities as a Diné woman."--

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