The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.

The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.

First Hyperion paperback edition.

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

New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2002.

English

244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

CMC PZ 7 .E72554 Bi 2002

813.54

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.

"National Book Award finalist"--Cover.
Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (page 240).

970L Lexile

Omakayas ; Bk 1
Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ; bk. 1.

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