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The birchbark house

Title
The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.
Author
Erdrich, Louise
Publication
  • New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2002.
  • ©1999

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Description
244 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
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.
Series Statement
  • Birchbark house ; bk. 1
  • Omakayas ; Bk 1
  • Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ; bk. 1.
Uniform Title
Omakayas ; bk. 1.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
Note
  • "National Book Award finalist"--Cover.
  • Originally published: 1999.
Awards (note)
  • WILLA Award (Women writing the West), YA Fiction, 2000
  • National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award, 2000
  • National Book Award finalist
Contents
The girl from Spirit Island -- Neebin (Summer): The birchbark house -- Old tallow -- The return -- Andeg: Deydey's ghost story -- Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe -- Pinch -- The move -- First snow -- Biboon (Winter): The blue ferns: grandma's story: fishing the dark side of the lake -- The visitor -- Hunger: Nanabozho and Muskrat make an earth -- Zeegwun (Spring) -- Maple sugar time -- One Horn's protection -- Full circle -- Author's note on the Ojibwa language -- Glossary and pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms.
Call Number
JFE 19-3363
ISBN
  • 9780786814541
  • 0786814543
  • 9781404629349
  • 1404629343
LCCN
98046366
OCLC
988943959
Author
Erdrich, Louise, author, illustrator.
Title
The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.
Publisher
New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2002.
Copyright Date
©1999
Edition
First paperback edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Birchbark house ; bk. 1
Omakayas ; Bk 1
Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ; bk. 1.
Omakayas ; bk. 1.
Study Program
AR 6.1 7.0.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.1 7.0 36398. RMS
Awards
WILLA Award (Women writing the West), YA Fiction, 2000
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award, 2000
National Book Award finalist
Research Call Number
JFE 19-3363
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