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Sing down the moon

A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	NY: Dell Laurel-Leaf, [1999], c1970.
Series:	Laurel-leaf Newbery.
Subjects:	Navajo Indians > Juvenile fiction. Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
Item Description:	Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Physical Description:	121 p. 18 cm.
ISBN:	0440979757 : PAP
Author Notes:	Scott O'Dell was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 23, 1898. He attended Occidental College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University, and University of Rome. He worked as a technical director for Paramount, a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a book editor of a Los Angeles newspaper before serving in the United States Air Force during World War II. The recipient of numerous book awards, he established the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction in 1981. He died on October 15, 1989.