Sing Down the Moon
by:
Scott O'Dell (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440479758 (0440479754)
Publish date: January 1st 1976
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Pages no: 138
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
History,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
American History,
Chapter Books
Bright Morning was out with her sheep when the spanish slavers captured her and later sold her. She was able to escape along with her friend Running Bird, but when they get home they later find more trouble going to happen for all of her people.Her tribe is eventually destroyed and forced to move to...
Riveting, and heart-wrenching, I caught myself on the verge of weeping several times during this book. Not just a kids book by any means, it's history. Based on the actual event called "The Long March" or "Long Walk of the Navajo", where in 1864 the government moved the Navajos from their homeland (...