One Day in the Desert

By Jean Craighead George

Subjects: Tohono O'odham Indians, Juvenile literature, Deserts, juvenile literature, Physiological effect, Desert ecology, Ecology, Deserts, Heat, Native Americans, Indians of North America, Tohono O'Odham Indians

Description: Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.