cover image Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Cornelia Cornelissen. Yearling Books, $5.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41242-7

In what PW called ""an eye-opening introduction to a painful period of American history,"" a Cherokee girl recounts the hardships of 1838 leading up to and including the journey along the Trail of Tears. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)