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    The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.

    • Title:The birchbark house / Louise Erdrich with illustrations by the author.
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    • Author/Creator:Erdrich, Louise, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:New York : HyperionBooks for Children, ©1999.
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    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ; bk. 1.
    • Summary: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.
    • Local note:First Nations author - Ojibwa.
    • Notes:Sequel: Game of silence.
      Includes glossary of Ojibwa language.
    • Contents:Girl from Spirit Island
      Neebin (Summer): Birchbark house
      Old tallow
      Return
      Andeg: Deydey's ghost story
      Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe
      Pinch
      Move
      First snow
      Biboon (Winter): Blue ferns: Grandma's story: Fishing the dark side of the lake
      Visitor
      Hunger: Nanabozho and Muskrat make an earth
      Zeegwun (Spring)
      Maple sugar time
      One Horn's protection
      Full circle
      Note on the Ojibwa language
      Glossary and pronunciation guide of Ojibwa terms.
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