Book Descriptions
for On the Long Trail Home by Elisabeth J. Stewart
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Basing a short adventure novel upon her own great-grandmother's escape from the historic and tragic Trail of Tears endured by the Cherokee people, Stewart succeeds in creating characters whose motivations and actions seem credible for their circumstances and time. Meli is the protagonist determined to return home in this 11-chapter survival story set in various parts of Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee and North Carolina. (Ages 10-13)
CCBC Choices 1994. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
In a story set in the 1830s, based on the author's own great-grandmother's life, Meli, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, and her older brother, Tahliqua, escape the Trail of Tears and brave hardship, peril, and the threat of recapture to make their way home.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.