Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Cornelissen, Cornelia

ISBN 10: 0780798937 ISBN 13: 9780780798939

Verlag: Turtleback Books, 1999

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"The poignancy of this bleak chapter in history should rivet even the most callous readers". -- The Bulletin

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In Soft Rain, a 9-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself in the same situation as Sweet Leaf as soldiers arrive one day to take her and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her family behind. It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called " the land of darkness" . . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for the next harvest. Because Soft Rain knows some of the white man's language, she soon learns that they must travel across rivers, valleys, and mountains. On the journey, she is forced to eat the white man's food and sees many of her people die. Her courage and hope are restored when she is reunited with her father, a leader on the Trail, chosen to bring her people safely to their new land.

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• Verlag: Turtleback Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0780798937
• ISBN 13: 9780780798939
• Einband: Encuadernación de biblioteca
• Anzahl der Seiten: 115