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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 6 years ago
Great historical fiction. Good for fans who liked Little House on the Prairie but hated the racism in those books. The food descriptions are a little lackluster, but the rest more than makes up for that.
Brenna M's Book Blog
Brenna M's Book Blog rated it 6 years ago
THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE Louise Erdrich Hardcover, 224 pages Published May 13th 2002 by Perfection Learning (first published 1999) ISBN: 0756911869 (ISBN13: 9780756911867) This is my first Louise Erdrich book. A middle grade chapter book that is well written. Erdrich includes a mini glossary at the ...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 7 years ago
Future Home of the Living God: A Novel, by Louise Erdrich The main character, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, was adopted. When her mother, Sera Songmaker, gives her a letter from Mary Potts, a Native American Indian, she discovers that Mary Potts is her birth mother. Who is her father, she wonders? Suddenly,...
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 7 years ago
B L E A K and stressful to read - don't count that against it, that means the prose was working.
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 7 years ago
B L E A K and stressful to read - don't count that against it, that means the prose was working.
Merle
Merle rated it 7 years ago
This isn’t a terrible book, but I can’t claim to have enjoyed it. Love Medicine is a somewhat awkward merger between novel and short story collection, made up of 17 pieces about two families living on the Ojibwe/Chippewa reservation over the span of about 50 years, from the 1930s to the 1980s. I cal...
Marinebuchbinder
Marinebuchbinder rated it 7 years ago
so kommt diese Geschichte daher von Fidelis Waldvogel, seiner Frau Eva und Delphine Watzka. Es ist keine klassische Liebesgeschichte, kein schnöder Roman, es ist das Leben. Und das wird hier so sensibel beschrieben, dass es mir die Tränen in die Augen getrieben hat bis ich laut aufschluchzen musste....
A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 8 years ago
The postpartum period after giving birth to my first son seems like the perfect time to reread Anne Lamott's "Operating Instructions" -- unfortunately, I gave my copy to my best friend when she was pregnant, having no idea that my own pregnancy was so close at hand. I thought Erdrich's book might se...
Clint
Clint rated it 8 years ago
Grade: 6th Reading Level: 970L Birchbark House is a book that follows the life of a young female Native American. A coming of age book that is sure to touch your heart. It also brings to light the early interaction between Native Americans and the colonists. This read is great to bring into the...
Megan's Blog
Megan's Blog rated it 8 years ago
This is a historically accurate book about an Indian girl and the struggles that she goes through in her village and house. Throughout this book that little girl goes through a journey of figuring out herself as a person. I would use this book as an whole group chapter book read. It would be a great...
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