The Porcupine Year
Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits.When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no...
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Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits.When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no matter where she is, or how she is living, she has the one thing she needs to carry her through.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064410304 (0064410307)
ASIN: 64410307
Publish date: September 14th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Novels,
History,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Family,
American History
Series: The Birchbark House
A beautiful, engrossing coming-of-age story, which casually treads the line between myth and realism. Omakayas and her family are each interesting, unpredictable, and worth spending time with.My 9-year-old daughter loves this book. I just listened to it with my 11-year-old son, and we enjoyed it qui...
At times hilarious and at others harrowing, this third book in the Birchbark House series is really good. Pinch/Quill comes into his own here as something other than the annoying little brother, and Omakayas is a teenager. The multi-generational family is limned adequately, but I would have liked mo...
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