The Trail of Tears cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.9
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 6627
Points per Word 0.000151
Page Count 64
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

This book recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1,200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.