The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl

by Ann Turner

Book Overview

The narrator describes her experiences as her Navajo tribe is forced to relocate by the U.S. Army in 1864 New Mexico. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590972162
• ISBN13: 9780590972161
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

I Love This Book

Thanks for the book cant wait to read it.

What A Fascinating Book!!!🤗

I just LOVE the Dear America series & this book was a GREAT one, too! I enjoyed learning about the Navajo people & I'm sure you will too. I do recommend this one!

Great but sad story

I enjoyed the story greatly. It was fun learning about tbe Navajos. I liked Sarah a lot. The Long Walk was completely heart breaking.

Read it show you how to beleive in yourself!!

In the beginning of the book shows the part where she is with her family when the Amercian soldiers take her family when she is with her younger sister, Kaibah, herding sheep. Shara Nita is a very good story teller and Kaibah likes to listen to her stories.When she heard someone scream she hopes it is not her mother, she tries to go to her family but her dog, Silvercoat, does not let them pass because he does not want them to get captured by the white man.When they return to their home their family is not there. They decided to go to Caynon de Chelly to find their family from their father's side of the family. Sarah Nita and Kaibah had found the caynon on their own just to be with her family again.They had found some people who were related to them and they stay with them until this evil time has pass. They were caught in the caynon walls when High Jumper had poked his head out and one of the white man had saw them. They were taken to another place where they had to eat the white mans food and they did not like it at all because it was not good for their stomaches. Some of the man and boys had run away because they didn't not like the way they were treated. When went on marching there was some old elders and pregnant woman who got shot because they could not walk any more.When they reach Fort Sumner, Sarah Nita and Kaibah were looking for their parents. They had stayed with the people they found as their relatives to get to Fort Sumner. When they found their family members, her mother was a slave for the white man, and her father was very sick. This is a very emotional and very sad book to us, Navajos.I'm am tell you this because this is a cultural thing to the Native Amercians. I am a Native Amercian and this is my history that is part of our lives and know one that is a Navajo will ever forget this time of the white man, which is also known as "The Long Walk".

This book teaches and touches

(...) I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!because I learned to have Faith and veryHigh SelfEsteem just like Sarah Nita. She was good and kind to everyone around her she was not a quiter and going to be put down and she stuck to ethnec group and religion I think if all the Navajo people would have stopped doubting about their future and pull together and be like Sarah Nita they would have been freed alot early. and I'm reading The Winter OFRed Snow and I would rate 5-star. (...)

A great page turner

This book was real page turner I loved it I am a huge fan of the Dear america series and this was one of the best booksI have read in the series. It really shows the true courage of Sara Nita and her sister and how true her love was for her family. and how she is not a quiter. Ann warren turner did a great job on this book the charcters are so real.atahere is never a dull moment in this book there is always one suspencfull event after another This is a must read book. and I also recemend The Winter Of Red Snow it is a great book to.

I loved this book!

This book was about a thirteen-year-old Navajo Indian girl on the Long Walk in 1863-1864. It showed how terrible the Native Americans were treated back then, even more than My Heart is on the Ground, another wonderful Dear America book. I highly reccomend reading this.