Title:
The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich ; with illustrations by the author.
ISBN:
9780786803002
9780786822416
9780786814541
9780613593847
9780756911867
9780063064164
9780063064171
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, [1999]
©1999
Physical Description:
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Map on lining papers.
Special features and enhancements may vary by copy.
Awards Note:
ALA Notable Children's Book, 2000.
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner, 2006.
Willa Literary Award for young adult fiction, 2000.
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 pronunciation guide of Ojibwa terms.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.1 7.0 36398.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.9 11 Quiz: 17743 Guided reading level: T.
Geographic Term:
Audience:
970L Lexile
Series Title:
Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocm39985631
Availability:
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