Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up
by Monty Roessel and Michael Dorris
Thirteen-year-old Celinda McKelvey is about to participate in her Kinaaldá,... read more
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- American Indian
Year Published 1993
Word Count 4,164
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 810L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 11023, 1 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- KinaaldaÌ (Navajo rite)
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Rites and ceremonies
- Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies--Juvenile literature
- Puberty rites
- Bloomfield
- New Mexico
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Kinaalda (Navajo rite)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
- Rites and ceremonies
- Puberty rites--New Mexico--Bloomfield--Juvenile literature
- Southwest, New
- Navajo Indians
- KinaaldaÌ (Navajo rite)--Juvenile literature
- McKelvey, Celinda
- Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies
- Navajo Indians--Biography--Juvenile literature
- McKelvey, Celinda--Juvenile literature
- Indians of North America
- Lists With This Book
- Coming of Age: American Indian Heritage
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