The Game of Silence
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave...
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Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064410298 (0064410293)
Publish date: June 13th 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Family,
Coming Of Age
Series: The Birchbark House
I found it interesting that Erdrich came back to these people so many years later (in real time, I mean- The Birchbark House was written in 1999). I'm glad she did. I enjoyed this one perhaps more than the first- I think Erdrich does a fabulous job of showing how the changes come to the family witho...
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