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Dezbah and the dancing tumbleweeds

by Margaret Kahn Garaway · 1990

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A 12-year-old Indian girl's dream to become the first Navajo girl to win an Olympic gold medal is shattered when she is hit by a truck and finds she is unable to walk.

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Audience
childrens
Length
short · 82 pages

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