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The birchbark house

Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Erdrich, Louise.
Birchbark house.
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1999
(OCoLC)633039971
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 0786803002 9780786803002 0786822414 9780786822416
OCLC Number: 39985631
Description: 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.

Abstract:

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.

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