The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.
Erdrich, Louise, author, illustrator.
2002
PZ7.E72554 Bi 2002 (Mapit)
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Title The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.
Author Erdrich, Louise, author, illustrator.
Edition 1st Hyperion pbk. ed.
ISBN 9780786814541 (paperback)
0786814543 (paperback)
0756911869 (Cover p. [iv])
9780756911867 (Cover p. [iv])
9781435267787 (hardcover)
1435267788 (hardcover)
9780613593847
0613593847
0329282212
1404629343
9780329282219
9781404629349
0786822414
9780786822416
0786803002
9780786803002
Imprint New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2002.
Language English
Description 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number PZ7.E72554 Bi 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
Summary Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast; they move to the cedar log house before the first snows arrive, and celebrate the end of the long, cold winters at maple-sugaring camp. In between, Omakayas fights with her annoying little brother, Pinch, plays with the adorable baby, Neewo, and tries to be grown-up like her beautiful older sister, Angeline. But the satisfying rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever. Set on an island in Lake Superior in 1847, and filled with fascinating details of traditional Ojibwa life, The Birchbark House is a breathtaking novel by one of America's most gifted and original writers.
Note "National Book Award finalist"--Cover.
Originally published: 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 240).
Series Omakayas ; Bk 1
Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ; bk. 1.
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Girl from Spirit Island
Neebin (Summer): Birchbark house
Old tallow
Return
Andeg: Deydey's ghost story
Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe
Pinch
Move
First snow
Biboon (Winter): Blue ferns: Grandma's story: Fishing the dark side of the lake
Visitor
Hunger: Nanabozho and Muskrat make an earth
Zeegwun (Spring)
Maple sugar time
One Horn's protection
Full circle
Note on the Ojibwa language
Glossary and pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms.

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