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Jingle Dancer
Author(s):
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
The cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress sing tink, tink, tink, tink…
Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared over generations in her family and intertribal community. She hopes to dance at the next powwow.
But with the day quickly approaching, she has a problem—how will her dress sing if it has no jingles?
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