60 pgs. b&w illus. 1992. Elementary school. AR 3.5 MG.

The Story of the Cherokee Alphabet... Imagine that you lived before there were radios or televisions or telephones. Imagine that you had never seen a book or a sign or a newspaper or a magazine. Imagine that you didn't even know the alphabet. Could you figure out how to write a letter to a friend?

Ahyoka and her father, Sequoyah, did. They are the only people in history to have made up a complete written language all by themselves. It took them many years to figure out the puzzle of how to create an alphabet for the Cherokee language. And to do it they had to leave their home and family behind.

"Easy, well-written historical fiction." —School Library Journal

"Readable and intriguing." —The Horn Book

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