Bibliograph

The birchbark house, Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author

Type

Label

The birchbark house, Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes glossary of Ojibwa language

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Middle School

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The birchbark house

Oclc number

39985631

Responsibility statement

Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author

Series statement

Birchbark house series

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification

Creator