The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich ; with illustrations by the author.
Material type: TextPublication details: Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2000.Edition: [Large print ed.]Description: 272 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 078622178X (lg. print : hc : alk. paper)
- [Fic] 21
- PZ7.E72554 Bi 2000b
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print Fiction | Erdrich, Louise | Available | 33111003077183 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the 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, and celebrate the end of the long winter at maple-sugaring camp. But the rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their winter lodge, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever.
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.