Pinto's journey

Description:

In New Mexico in the early 1940s, Pinto, a nine-year-old Pueblo Indian boy, determines to help his family have a better Christmas by searching for another source of turquoise when the mines on which his jeweler grandfather depends close because of the war.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Pueblo Indians,  Indians of North America,  Christmas stories,  Fiction,  Christmas,  Children's fiction,  Indians of north america, pueblo indians, fiction,  Grandparents, fiction,  Christmas, fiction,  New mexico, fiction,  Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940