Kinaalda, A Navajo Girl Grows Up

Kinaalda, A Navajo Girl Grows Up
Monty Roessel
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1993 •  PAPER  • 48 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This children's book follows Celinda McKelvey, a 13-year-old Navajo girl, as she performs and celebrates Kinaalda, a traditional Navajo rite-of-passage ceremony. Clear color photographs and an informed text (the author is a Navajo), make this a helpful window in to the traditions of Native Americans and how they are practiced today, for middle school children.  (SWU23, $8.95)





 
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