This book is a historical fiction about Navajo Indians. Bright Morning is a brave American Indian girl. She escapes from slavery after being captured by Spaniards. Then she is forced to move to Fort Sumner in a long march known as the Long Walk. She eventually flees for freedom. ( )

I was kind of disappointed with this book. It was too short. Actually, I thought that Bright Morning was made out to be masculine and Tall Boy was made out to be feminine. Everything that Tall Boy did was wrong. I thought that maybe there should have been more on the Spanish slavery than was written. It seemed to have ended too abruptly. But the history of the removal of the Indians from their homelands were incredible and very accurate. ( )

Sing Down the Moon is a Navaho girls life through tragedy and despair of her people. The forced migration of the Navaho Indians from their original homeland in Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico is described from the Indian point of view and is very moving when you think of the hardship that they endured.

This book would be a great reading for just about any age. The story captures the reader and makes you feel some of the hardship that these people had to face. I would recommend this book of not only learning some history about the Navaho Indians, but some compassion for the Indian people.

This would be a good book to incorporate into a history lesson, or if learning about different Indian cultures. I am sure that it would open the eyes of some that have no idea about some of the many hardships that Indian people faced.

This is a rather depressing story of the Navahos being pulled from their homes and their livelihood and being forced to a reservation that can not support them. Bright Morning escapes slavery by the Spanish only to find her people later forced from their canyon by the Americans. Before their eyes, everything in their homes and land is destroyed, and they can do nothing to stop it. Bright Moon has a great struggle- getting Tall Boy to get over his pride and act. ( )

I enjoyed this book to some extent. I thought that it was a great story, but was a little slow. I love historical fiction, I love novels by Scott O’Dell, and I read that this novel was an all-time classic. Therefore, I was extremely excited to read it. However, I found myself being let down. It was a little slow, and just did not have very much excitement to it in parts that could have been really exciting. I also really liked how it had a lot to do with the large movement of many Indian tribes. I would be interested in finding other novels out there about this same topic. I feel that it would be a great novel to read when learning about this historical event in America’s history.