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My Name Is America: the Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears 1838

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By Joseph Bruchac
Publisher Scholastic Inc
My Name Is America: the Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears 1838
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The Cherokees call The Trail of Tears Nundautsunyi, or The Place Where the People Cried. Jesse Smoke, his mother, and sisters are forced to abandon their home, their land, and their possessions when they and several thousand other Cherokees are forced west on The Trail of Tears. Illustrations. Foldout map.

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35511 words35,511 words
176 pages176 pages
Lexile 880LLexile 880L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 2001Published 2001

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Book ISBN:

9780439121972

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