Sing Down the Moon: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

by Scott O'Dell

Book Overview

Newbery Honor Book

In this powerful novel based on historical events, the Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner is dramatically and courageously narrated by young Bright Morning.

Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547406320
• ISBN13: 9780547406329
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

You won't Be Able To Put This Book Down!!!!!!!!!!

Sing Down the Moon, by Scott O'Dell deserves 5 stars. This book is one of the best books I have ever read. Scott O'Dell keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire book. For example, when a young Navajo girl, Bright Morning, and her friend, Running Bird, were grazing their sheep in the Cannon de Chelly, a few Spaniards come and capture them. They then are taken to a village and sold to two different owners. Somehow they have to find their way back to their village. With very little food and a friend they meet, can they make it back without being captured? Besides that O'Dell makes the story even more interesting when the Spaniards come and trample all of their crops and destroy the Navajo's village. The Navajo's escaped and try to start a new village some where else around the Cannon de Chelly. The Spaniards find out about this and the capture them all and make them walk all the way to Fort Sumner taken prisoners. What makes this book even more interesting is that the story is based on a true event in real life. It is between the Navajo Indians and the United States between 1863 and 1865. The story is mainly about the Spaniards coming and marching the Navajos to Fort Sumner. The journey was about 300 miles. Some 1500 Navajos die at Fort Sumner but the groups who have survived have grown over 100,000 people. Scott O'Dell is able to make history very interesting. He helps show the history of the Navajo Indians that a lot of people overlook. This book is a must-read! I would reccommend reading Al Capone Does My Shirts and Old Ramon, two great books. My name is Dillon and I am a middle school student.

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Sing Down the Moon, Scott O'Dell, 5 stars I gave this book five stars because this book is very good. This book has a intricate details and a creative plot. I really think that this book should be recommended because this book is a great read while being educational. I think that this book did deserve the award that it won because it was such a good book. Sing Down the Moon is a book that I would read over and over again because it is so good. It shows what really was happening during the time period of the Indians. Also this book shows about the Spaniards coming to America and trying to take over the Indians whom were thought of as the weaker class. this book is excellent and deserved the fivee star rating that I chose to give this book. I would recommend this book to girls mostly because the story is about two girls, Running Bird and Bright Morning. They are fourteen and kidnapped by the Spaniards. They sell them to different owners and force them to work. Then they escape away from the owners, steal the horses of the Spaniards and run off. They get back safely, but then the Spaniards come after the tribe! The men are hunting in the forests, but they come back. Then the whole tribe of Running Birdss and Bright Morning's has to flee for themselves. You have to read this book to find out what happened. Although, the review was for showing that the book was good, I say this book was EXCELLENT!!!! Other titles I recommend is, RL Stine and Hardy Boys. These are my favorite books to read, other then miscellaneous items. I live to dance ballet. Ballet is the best thing in the world. That and dancing in my pointeshoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sing Down the Moon

Sing Down the Moon is a very good book. If you like Native Americans you will love this book. It is about a tribe of Indians gettin taken from their lands and driven to a fort.

What it's like to be a Navaho girl

The book I read was called Sing Down the Moon. It is about a Navaho girl named Bright Morning. She tells about all the adventures she has had. She tells about when slave traders captured her and what she does. I learned about Navaho life and how the United States soldiers treated Navaho people. The soldiers forced the Navaho people out of their canyon and forced them to walk to Fort Sumner. I liked the book very much. I liked hearing what life was like for the Navahos in the 1860's from the point of view of a girl close to my age. It was very exciting. There was a lot of action. I especially liked the part where Bright Morning and her husband Tall Boy escape the Long Knives. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Navaho history and likes an exciting adventure story.