How I became a ghost : a Choctaw Trail of Tears story / Tim Tingle.

Title:

Author:

Tingle, Tim.

ISBN:

9781937054533

1937054535

9781937054557

1937054551

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Info:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma :

Description:

141 pages : map; 23 cm.

Series:

How I became a ghost series ; bk. 1.

Summary:

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.

General Note:

Maps on endpapers.

"July 2013"--Title page verso.

Subject(s):

Choctaw Indians -- Relocation -- Juvenile fiction.

Indian Removal, 1813-1903 -- Juvenile fiction.

Ghost stories.

Choctaw boys.

Choctaw Indians -- Juvenile fiction.

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A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from its Mississippi homeland, and how its exodus to the American West led him to become a ghost -- one able to help those left behind.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 7 Up-The ghost is Isaac, a Choctaw boy who dies on the Trail of Tears, yet continues to interact with Joseph, another Choctaw boy who is a shape-shifter. Tingle's historical novel normalizes Choctaw spirituality, presenting it as part of the fabric of life of those who lived, died, and were killed on the Trail of Tears of the 1830s. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.