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Dzání Yázhí Naazbaa': Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home
A Story of the Navajo Long Walk


About the Reviewers: This is a photograph of Suzanne Brazzell and Carleen Young holding the book.(Fall 2005)

Suzanne Brazzell and Carleen Young are both Elementary Education students at Northern Arizona University in Tucson, Arizona. We are doing a practicum together in a fifth-grade class at Cragin Elementary School. We both plan on teaching elementary school. We also share a love for reading.

Suzanne is a native Tucsonan and lives with her husband and their two children. She plans to stay in Tucson to teach. As well as going to school, she works two part-time jobs. She also keeps busy serving on a board for their community pool. She also volunteers at her children's school in a second-grade classroom helping with reading.

Carleen is originally from a west suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She has lived in Tucson for 12 years. She enjoys living in the Southwest and the lifestyle that it brings with the hot summers and the mild winters. She currently works for an airline which enables her to travel. She plans to use the knowledge she gains from visiting different countries so she can teach various cultures to her students. She has been working with children in one capacity or another for the last twenty years.