Walks in Beauty

by Hazel Krantz

Book Overview

Fifteen-year-old Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager living on a New Mexico reservation, struggles with conflicting forces as she tries to reconcile traditional Navajo ways with her desires for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873586670
• ISBN13: 9780873586672
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Rising Moon (Nrl)
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.4" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

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Content of the book

Set in the hauntingly beautiful Arizona Navajo Reservation, WALKS IN BEAUTY tells the story of 15-year old Anita Lonetree. Anita feels isolated because her father deserted her mother and moved to Albequerque. She also doubts her father's love. She clings to her one friend, Michelle, also an outsider because her father, an attorney, moves mostly in the white world. During a sandstorm, Anita connects with Timothy the runner. As Tim's girlfriend, she now has status, but Tim doesn't like Michelle. As Anita confronts her problems, she experiences Navajo customs...a First Laugh Party and her sister's puberty Kinaalda celebration.