On the Long Trail Home

By Elizabeth J. Steward and Elizabeth J. Stewart

Book Overview

The escape of the author's great-grandmother from the infamous Trail of Tears inspired this gripping account of Meli, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, and her perilous journey from her people's exile... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590543245
• ISBN13: 9780590543248
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Children are brave

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a story from Australia that parallels this one, but a century later. In both cases the government treats the original people of the land as if they had no human rights.The Cherokee are the case most often pointed to of a "civilized" people. with their own written language. In this novel the only real Christians seem to be Quakers. Meli and her brother Tahli break out of the U.S. Army's detention and Tahli is wounded. He nearly dies on the trip home and Meli is recaptured and manages to escape from a root cellar. They are befriended by Caddo Indians whose language seems to be from the same base language as Cherokee. This story is reconstructed by the author from a word of mouth oral history of her family. As a Children's book it might be confusing to young people that historically the U. S, government has broken treaties and generally treated the American Indians/ Native American very badly.

On The Long Trail Home

Nine year old Meli was on her way to school.When all of a sudden a soldier knocked on the door. He came in and killed her mom and her sister. Meli clung to her grandma ever since her mom and her sister had died. Meli and her grandma named Sagui can't find the rest of her family. If you like history of indans than you would like to read this book. By Lexy