The Birchbark House
New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2002.
Format: Book
Edition: First Hyperion paperback edition.
Description: 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America -- Juvenile fiction.
Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
Seasons -- Juvenile fiction.
Superior, Lake, Region -- Juvenile fiction.
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America -- Juvenile fiction.
Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
Seasons -- Juvenile fiction.
Superior, Lake, Region -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 970L
ISBN:
9780063064164 (pbk.)
"National Book Award finalist"--Cover.
Originally published: 1999.
Originally published: 1999.