{"product_id":"canyon-dreams-a-basketball-season-on-the-navajo-nation-paperback","title":"Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Celebrated \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ejournalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Powell\u003c\/b\u003e has been a writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e since 2007, and a \"Sports of The Times\" columnist since 2014. Before joining the\u003ci\u003e Times, \u003c\/i\u003e he worked for the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e from 1996 to 2006, where he covered the 2000 presidential campaign and later served as New York bureau chief. He has been part of teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and the Polk Award. Powell began his career in 1984 at the \u003ci\u003eBurlington Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e, going on to positions with the \u003ci\u003eBergen Record\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e. He studied American and African history at SUNY Purchase College, worked as a tenant organizer in East Flatbush, and received his master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1984. Powell and his wife have two sons. They live in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 13\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767637147936,"sku":"9780525534686","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b711c4146577957d7c77dd39454bba47.webp?v=1780314036","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/canyon-dreams-a-basketball-season-on-the-navajo-nation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}