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Author
Series
Genius Files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"--
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Eva and her family prepare for her quinceañera, no one is paying attention to her younger sister, but when the dog gets out of the laundry room and steals Eva's sash, her little sister comes to the rescue.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The police dispatcher sends Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn to retrieve the body of a young man found alongside the road, apparently dead of an alcohol overdose. But when Leaphorn arrives, he suspects the cause of death isn't so simple: the dead man's face is set in a grimace of terror. And as the lieutenant searches for the cause, all the clues point to Navajo witchcraft.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Tony Hillerman packs his flawless mysteries with evocative southwestern scenery, Native American lore, and finely-crafted characters. In The First Eagle, fear has been sweeping the Navajo reservation ever since a vicious killer and an unusually virulent strain of bubonic plague started claiming victims. When Tribal policeman Jim Chee discovers a blood-stained Hopi man hovering over a young officer's body, it looks...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1998, three "survivalists" murdered a pliceman and eluded an epic manhunt. The bungled FBI investigation left behind a web of mysteries. Sergeant Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn (retired) are assigned to solve the crime when three men stage a pre-dawn raid ont the Ute Tribe's gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. Chee and Leaphorn discover an intriguing pattern connecting the crimes.
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When estranged siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot head out on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque in the wake of Jonah's divorce, the last thing they expect to discover in the Nevada desert is an abandoned industrial site built around a hole in the earth that seems to go on and on forever. Exploring it, they soon discover an underground cavern filled with corpses both fresh and ancient, indecipherable writing covering the...
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