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    Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
    Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
    Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
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    Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves

    By Peter Roop, Connie Roop and Yoshi Miyake

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    A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and recipient of the Florida Sunshine Award: In this absorbing chapter book, Ahyoka helps her father, Sequoyah, unlock the mystery of “talking leaves” to create the Cherokee alphabet

    Ahyoka is the daughter of Sequoyah, a silversmith who has given up most of his trade to focus on his true passion. He longs for the day when the Cherokee people can communicate to one another from afar and document the history of their lives. He wants his people—the Real People—to have a written language like the white men do.
     
    When he is ostracized from his community for the “magic” he is creating, he leaves his home to pursue his quest. His young daughter, who shares his dream, joins him on his journey. They work together to create a syllabic alphabet that will tell the story of the Cherokee people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781504010085
    Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
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    Peter Roop

    Peter Roop graduated from Lawrence University to become an elementary-school teacher. It was in his early teaching days that Roop first decided to try writing for children, and Roop persevered, writing and publishing his first short stories and articles while teaching in England. In 1980 he got his Master's degree in children's literature from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in Boston, where he studied with Newbery Medalist Scott O'Dell.

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      Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves - Peter Roop

      Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves

      Peter and Connie Roop

      Illustrated by Yoshi Miyaki

      FOR HEIDI,

      our Ahyoka, who brings us much happiness.

      ONE

      Ahyoka’s charcoal flew across the sycamore bark.

      Would Father understand her picture? Sometimes he knew what her drawings meant. Other times he did not. When she had drawn her best buffalo, he had thought it was a cow.

      For two summers and two winters Ahyoka and her father, Sequoyah, had been drawing pictures for the Tsalagi people’s words. The Cherokee had so many words, and she and Sequoyah had to draw a picture for every one of them. The stack of drawings in the corner reached Ahyoka’s chin. Yet she felt as if they had just begun.

      There were still so many more words to draw: Gadu, bread. Ahawi, deer. Waya, wolf. And those were the easy words. What would she draw for hard ones, for anger, sorrow, dusk, autumn?

      Ahyoka sighed. Even if they drew every Cherokee word, would her people understand them?

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