While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
In 1759, after a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a journey across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety.
Presents a comprehensive history of the Cherokee Nation, and examines their origin, relations with other Indian tribes, missionaries, and settlers, forced migration to Oklahoma in the 1830s, participation in the Civil War, and more.
Offers children a brief introduction to the life of Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian who developed the Cherokee alphabet and created a way for the tribe to communicate with one another on paper.
Presents a history of the Trail of Tears and the events leading up to it and transpiring because of it, highlighting the Cherokee experience and how they rebuilt their nation after marching on the trail.
After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.
