Miriam, sixteen, is chosen for marriage by someone other than the boy she loves and begins to question her entire life in New Jerusalem, a desert compound safe from the world's evils.
The Critter Kids visit the desert reservation of Coyote Canyon, where all the highly prized golden eagle eggs have disappeared from the preserve, and work to find if weasels and coyotes are to blame or a mysterious thief is stealing them.
"Deserts, hot and cold, are home to animals and plants that adapted to living in places with very little rain. From snakes in the Sahara to caribou in the Artic, find out what special features or skills help animals survive in extreme conditions"--Back cover.
Edna is a precocious trouble-maker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet and television. Edna naturally finds this arrangement unacceptable. She's determined to rebel until she meets an older local boy and falls in love for the first time. How can she get to know him from the edge of nowhere?.
"When Ali's aged great-grandmother, with whom he lives, tells him the one thing she wishes for that she never did was to see the sea, two days walk away across the desert, he sets out with a pail to make the journey for her"--OCLC.
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
