![]() ![]() Author Tim Tingle is able to bring the realities of the Trail of Tears and the religious beliefs of the Choctaw tribe to the forefront while telling a compelling story that many young readers will enjoy. This is big belief to the Choctaw tribe as shown by the use of the “bonepickers”, a group of women that prepare the bones of the dead to be buried so their spirits, or their ghosts, can pass to their afterlife. This book is the first in a series of books that focuses on the ghosts. ![]() Now, Isaac and his new friend, Joseph, can do all in their power to save Naomi and return her to her family. The white settlers, called Nahullo, threatened the family when they took Naomi, but what they threatened came to pass on its own. Isaac accepts his fate and embraces the ghosts that give him warnings to help keep his family and the rest of the tribe as safe as he can and to help find the kidnapped girl, Naomi, to spare her family more heartbreak. Isaac knows not to take them because he can see the people that will become ghosts, like himself before the end of the book. ![]() ![]() To thin the numbers of the Choctaw tribe, blankets with riddled with small pox are handed out. The journey is frozen, dangerous, and fraught with peril. Isaaac is a ten-year old Choctaw boy forced to leave his family’s home in Mississippi to travel the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. ![]()
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