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Walks In Beauty

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In Anita's World

Anita is a young Navajo woman who getting ready to graduate. She is dealing with a lot that is happening in her life.
Her sister doesn't want to have her Kinaalda ceremony. She thinks it is going to be boring. She has to make this ceremony as fun as possible for her sister. Her new boyfriend doesn't approve of her best friend, so her and her boyfriend. They get in a fight because he doesn't want to give Anita's friend and her date a ride to the prom. The prom gets crashed Jim Manygoat's brother, which is Anita's friend's date.
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I really enjoyed this story it really gives you a lot of information about how the Navajo clans were treated, how hard they had it, and how badly they were treated. I thought that it was really great how Anita wanted to fix all the problems that were going on in her life and with her family and how she let things go after all the years they were bugging her.

Set in the hauntingly beautiful Arizona Navajo Reservation, WALKS IN BEAUTY tells the story of 15-year old Anita Lonetree. Anita feels isolated because her father deserted her mother and moved to Albequerque. She also doubts her father's love. She clings to her one friend, Michelle, also an outsider because her father, an attorney, moves mostly in the white world. During a sandstorm, Anita connects with Timothy the runner. As Tim's girlfriend, she now has status, but Tim doesn't like Michelle. As Anita confronts her problems, she experiences Navajo customs...a First Laugh Party and her sister's puberty Kinaalda celebration.

The book Walk in Beauty takes place in a little town in Navajo Nation. Anita is the main character she tries to be like her mom. She is 15 years old she is going to graduate from junior high, she is trying so hard on how to be a grown up person. She has a little sister named Lola. Lola is very annoying to Anita; she bothers her all the time. Lola job at home is to take care of the animals in the barn. Anita job at home is to do the chores like as in clean the dishes and stuff like that. Michelle is Anitas best friend they get along very well. Anita has a grandpa named Benny he will always say he would go to any activities from school but he has never been there before. So Anita would never believe him. He would not accept her work or her friends. I did not like this book because it is so boring and so confusing. I would not recommend this book to anyone, I would give this book 1out of 5 stars. If you would like to find out more about this book then you better check it out at your local library.

This novel is appropriate for ages 10-14. Walks in Beauty by Hazel Krantz is the story of Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager who walks between two nations - that of the Native American and of mainstream America.

Four years after her father left for Albuquerque, Anita continues to mourn the loss. She is angry with him and doesn't believe he loves her. Her anger spills over into her relationship with her mother, causing a strain. Anita is also experiencing, at age fifteen, the first blush of romance with all the typical problems and obstacles.

Walks in Beautyis a well-written novel that gives readers a brief look at the Navajo life. Its pace is slow and the story is sweet in its own way. And that sweetness makes it so refreshing in an era where gritty and edgy stories reign-even if readers even if we'd rather read a sweet story.