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Soft Rain

By: Cornelia Cornelissen
Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
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It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness"...the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for the next harvest but soon thereafter, soldiers arrive to take nine-year-old Soft Rain and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her family behind.

Because Soft Rain knows some of the white man's language, she soon learns that they must travel across rivers, valleys, and mountains. On the journey, she is forced to eat the white man's food and sees many of her people die. Her courage and hope are restored when she is reunited with her father, a leader on the Trail, chosen to bring her people safely to their new land.

©1998 Cornelia Cornelissen (P)2020 Tantor

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Uggg! What an awful reader!

I’m sorry I wasted a credit on this book. The reader’s melodramatic pauses at the end of her sentences is like fingernails on a chalk board. I couldn’t listen-too distracting to the actual writer’s work. Guess I’ll just read it myself to my students.

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The narrator leaves a lot to be desired

The story itself we are enjoying very much, but the narrator's voice is awful. It's painful trying to make it through the story. I had seen the one poor review before making my selection, but thought they must be exaggerating. Unfortunately, they weren't. Skip this audiobook. Hopefully they'll release a new version, with a different narrator.

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