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Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

by Andrea L. Rogers

A Cherokee family’s forced removal through a child’s perspective

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A Cherokee family’s forced removal through a child’s perspective

Set during the Cherokee removal of 1838, the novel follows twelve-year-old Mary and her family as U.S. soldiers force them from their Georgia home. Separated from her father, Mary faces internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather while trying to keep family and friends together on the journey to Indian Territory. The narrative brings a young person’s experience to a history of forced displacement. Nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader-response questions extend the book’s treatment of the removals and their context.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Young readers interested in historical fiction set in nineteenth-century United States.
Readers studying Cherokee history and the forced removals following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Classrooms or families seeking fiction with glossary and nonfiction support material.

Themes

Cherokee removal and forced displacementFamily separation and solidaritySurvival amid violence, disease, and harsh conditionsHistorical memory

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Book overview

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather, Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story explores the tragedy of forced removals following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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