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Journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee Boy
by Joseph Bruchac

Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Ages 9-12

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