The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838
Book 12 of the My Name Is America series
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When thousands of Cherokees were forced west by settlers in the 1830s, they named the path they followed the Trail of Tears. This powerful fictionalized journal retraces one young Native American boy's trek down that lonesome way.
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