num_pages: 176
description: Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears.
language: English
title: The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838
titlecomplete: The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838 (My Name Is America)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Juvenile, Native Americans, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diary, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 416
series: My Name Is America
publisher: Scholastic Inc.