The boy is a starving orphan living on the streets when Mr. McSneed puts him in a traveling medicine show and calls him “Punch.” Now he’s Punch with Judy and, it turns out, that’s all that matters — if only he can make it last, when everyone around them is against them.
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Winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal, this is an authentic novel about an eight-year-old Navaho boy’s training as a medicine man. This deeply moving and accurate account of one young Navaho’s childhood and spiritual journey is filled with wonder and respect for the natural world–a living record of the Navaho way of life before the influence of the white man.
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