- Newbery honor book, Juvenile fiction, Death, Indians of North America
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
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Character
Earnest, grave, intimate and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Miska Miles
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 44
- Publisher
- Trumpet Club, Tandem Library, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812437447
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First sentence
“Annie's Navajo world was good - a world of rippling sand, of high copper-red bluffs in the distance, of the low mesa near her own snug hogan.”
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