The Porcupine Year
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060297886 (0060297883)
Publish date: September 2nd 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 208
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...