![]() She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwa and lives with her daughters in Minnesota. LOUISE ERDRICH is the author of many critically acclaimed and best-selling books. Age Range: 9 - 12 years, Grade level: 3-7 Then one winter night, the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every summer they build 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 winter at maple sugaring camp. Although the chimookoman (white people) claim more and more of their land, life continues much as it always has. Historical fiction set in the mid-19th century in the Lake Superior area. 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. ![]() Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. With this volume, Erdrich ( Grandmother’s Pigeon, 1996, etc. Historical fiction set in the mid-19th century in the Lake Superior area. The story of a young Ojibwa girl living on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. The Birchbark House, the award-winning author Louise Erdrichs first novel for young readers, features Nineteenth-century American pioneer life as seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa girl Omakayas, or Little Frog, so named because her first step was a hop. ![]()
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