Racing the Sun (Avon Camelot Books)
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ISBN: 0380754967 / Publisher: HarperCollins, January 1988
When twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers' aging grandfather comes to visit, the old man's customs and ways awaken in Brandon an awareness and pride concerning his own Navajo heritage, and his quest for more knowledge leads him to the reservation
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Being an American in ian wasn't something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who neededembarrassing mumbo-jumbo to make you look different? But then Brandon's Navajo grandfather moved off the reservation and into the lower bunk in Brandon's room!It wasn't easy having a roommate who chanted himself to sleep and got you out of bed before sunrise to race the sun. But now Brandon's learning lessons he'll never forget. Like how to take on the old ways without giving up the new. And how to grow up proud and strong ... with a heritage as real as an old man's love.
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