C. T. Suddeth

Meet Gertrude—she steals the show in Stone Man and the Trail of Tears.

Though I am no horseman, I am a horse lover. Horses often show up in my stories.

After U.S. soldiers attack twelve-year-old Tsatsi’s Cherokee village, his family flees to the Smokey Mountains. Facing storms, flood, and hunger, they’re forced to go where Stone Man, a monstrous giant, is rumored to live. Their journey is a dangerous one. Will Tsatsi find the strength to become a Cherokee warrior? And will they ever find their family again?
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