Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott

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519pmzpsz0l__sl500_bo2204203200_pisitb-dp-500-arrowtopright45-64_ou01_aa240_sh20_.jpgThis book is a Pueblo Indian tale about the Lord of the Sun sending a son to earth by way of the sun’s rays. He lives with a maiden and is picked on at school because he doesn’t know who is father is. He goes on a journey to find his father and along the way he tries to talk to many people. No one would answer his question until he came to a wise man who an arrow maker. The man turned the  boy into an arrow and shot him up into the sun where the boy was reunited with his father. His father, the Lord of the Sun, made him endure several things to prove he was his son, so the boy did. Then the father sent him back down to earth to lead the people.