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The birchbark house / by Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2019Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Large print editionDescription: 275 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432865917
  • 1432865919
  • 9781432865924
  • 1432865927
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: FPL Indigenous Peoples' Day for All Ages | Native Ways of Knowing Indigenous Books
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Erdrich Louise 1 Available 33111009556032
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A National Book Award FinalistThe family spends its summers in a house made of birchbark, harvest time at ricing camp and winters in a cedar log house before harvesting sugar maple at camp in the spring. Nokomis always urges Omakayas to learn the old ways of her tribe and to listen for the spirits in nature.Age Range: 9-12 | Grade Level: 3-7 | Lexile Measure: 970L

Sequel: Game of silence.

"Thorndike Press Large Print Middle Reader."

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.

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