Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

The story revolves around a young Native American girl named soft rain and her travels through the trail of tears. This was a dark time in history for a group of people the story kept true to the history but in a way children may understand. It takes this dark event and tells it from a child’s perspective. A good example of a child’s response to the trail of tears was when she complained that she didn’t sign the treaty. Another thing that I loved about the text is that they have several pages dedicated to facts and history about the Cherokee nation. Which any child could use to connect to the text they read and read more if they are interested.

This is a book I read aloud to a fourth grade class prior to teaching a unit on Native Americans. It was a great introduction to our studies. I think the greatest thing we learned from the book was empathy with Native Americans that were forced to move from their homes. It also sparked discussion about treating everyone with respect and how to treat people who are in less fortunate situations than ours.

A young Native American girl is forced to go with her family along the trail of tears and abandon the life she knew growing up on her family's land. She witnesses the horrors of captivity and learns to become stronger.

This book would be a good book to accompany a lesson in American History and to help students understand how a person can go through diversity and come out stronger. This story also helps students understand many of the unfair practices that were put in place against Native Americans.

I thought this book was very good,it was sad,I'll admit,but I recognize that because this story is like this it will help more people to understand what really happened.

Soft Rain, a story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelissen_ Cornelia
Tragic story of the life of a young child as she and her mother are taken from the tribe and are told to move with others.
They do not take her blind grandmother.
Loved hearing how they are reunited and that the white children helped clothe and feed them along the trail to their new home.
Resourced are noted at the end.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

i think this book was sad but great at the same time. i thought it would be boring but when i found out it was real history i loved it. this book was about the trail of tears soft rain lost her grandmother which was sad because when she went on the trail of tears i would not live without my grandmother!

This book is very sad,but is an amazing true story about the Cherokee Trail of Tears. I think everyone should read this book. I don't like that a bunch of people die, but they were forced to move.I like that they get free and Soft Rain shares the journey they took. Read this book!!