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Subtitle: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Nine-year-old Soft Rain likes going to school and helping her family on their land in North Carolina. Then white men tell them that the Cherokee must leave their ancestral home and travel west to an uncertain future...

The Trail of Tears definitely does not represent one of the US government's better moments. This story for YA readers was inspired by the author's Cherokee heritage and includes a reading list and bibliography.

Picked up at the Punahou Carnival.

Saturday, April 14, 2018: left in a tree near the entrance to the parking lot...on a rainy day. (Larger photo here.)

Released for Secretariat's 2018 NJABBIC Challenge (week 14: rain).

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