description: Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
language: English
title: Sweetgrass
titlecomplete: Sweetgrass
genres: Chapter Books, Historical, Middle Grade, Novels, Native Americans, Young Adult, Childrens, Teen, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 400
places: North Dakota, Canadian Prairies
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Canada Council Children's Literature Award
publisher: Tree Frog Pr