The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation

by Alice B McGinty and Alice B. McGinty

Book Overview

This inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day.

Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop-- nothing. He walks down the road to the horses' watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525645004
• ISBN13: 9780525645009
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4