Birchbark House, The
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Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL59778217M
- ISBN-100786814543
- OCLC Control Number49806683
Classifications
- LCCPZ7.E72554 Bi 2002
Description
[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books. --The New York Times Book Review
Description
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.
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