| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Note |
Sequel: Game of silence. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes glossary of Ojibwa language. |
| 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 pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms. |
| Awards |
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for juvenile book, 2000. |
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ALA Notable Children's Book, 2000 |
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Willa Literary Award for young adult fiction, 2000. |
| Audience |
Middle School. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Ojibwa Indians. |
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Superior, Lake -- Juvenile fiction.
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Lake Superior. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark house. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, ©1999 (OCoLC)633039971 |
| ISBN |
0786803002 |
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9780786803002 |
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0786822414 (lib.) |
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9780786822416 (lib.) |
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0786814543 (h.) |
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9780786814541 (h.) |
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