TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erdrich,Louise
TI  - The Birchbark House
SN  - 9781432865917
AV  - PZ7.E72554 Bi 2000b
U1  - [Fic] 21
PY  - 2019///, c1999
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Ojibway people
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Indigenous peoples of North America
KW  - Superior, Lake, Region
KW  - Islands
KW  - Seasons
KW  - Large type books
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Indigenous / Historical
KW  - FICTION / Classics
N1  - "Recommended for middle grade readers."; Thorndike Press
N2  - 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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