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Format:
Book
Title:
The birchbark house
ISBN:
9780786803002

9780786822416

9780786814541

9781435267787

9789786803005

9780439203401

9780756911867

9780063064164
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : HyperionBooks for Children, 1999.
Physical Description:
244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series title(s):
Number in series:
BK. 1.
General Note:
Sequel: Game of silence.
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.
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.
Reading Level:
970 Lexile.

Middle School.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 6.1 7 Quiz 36398 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.
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